GeForce GTX 650 Ti vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 290, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this model. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

Radeon R9 290		9876 points
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		3434 points
	Difference: 6442 (188%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290		29 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 19 (190%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		110 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 190 Watts (173%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 290 should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 233600 (270%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 will be much (approximately 116%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		59392 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 68608 (116%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 should be quite a bit (approximately 245%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		14848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36352 (245%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling 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 chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.