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Geforce GTX 780 vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

The Geforce GTX 780 features a core clock speed of 863 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1502 MHz. It also makes use of a 384-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 192 TAUs, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 290, which has a GPU core clock speed of 800 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2560 Stream Processors, 160 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Geforce GTX 780 10082 points
Radeon R9 290 9876 points
Difference: 206 (2%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290 29 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 780 20 Mh/s
Difference: 9 (45%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 780 250 Watts
Radeon R9 290 300 Watts
Difference: 50 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 290 should be 11% quicker than the Geforce GTX 780 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 290 320000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 780 288384 MB/sec
Difference: 31616 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 780 will be much (about 29%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 290. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780 165696 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290 128000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 37696 (29%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 will be quite a bit (approximately 24%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Geforce GTX 780, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 290 51200 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 780 41424 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 9776 (24%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Geforce GTX 780 Radeon R9 290
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2013 November 2013
Code Name GK110 Hawaii PRO
Memory 3072 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 863 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 288384 MB/sec 320000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 165696 Mtexels/sec 128000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 41424 Mpixels/sec 51200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2304 2560
Texture Mapping Units 192 160
Render Output Units 48 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 384-bit 512-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 7080 million 6200 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Geforce GTX 780

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

Comments

6 Responses to “Geforce GTX 780 vs Radeon R9 290”
Пельмени says:

R9 290 is now the best choice in terms price/perfomance

niquenen says:

La GTX 780 est bien mieux que la R9 290 au niveau performance.

hauwr says:

AND THE WINNER IS R9 290!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BLABLA says:

les deux aux choix

ljl87 says:

Long live the power of cheapness. Radeon won!!

xxkiller1334xx says:

Geht rekt AMD and nvidia my Microsoft CPU and GPU is mich fast er m8 ur card is total shite

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