GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 290, which features 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 features 2560 SPUs, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation 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 560 Ti 448		4200 points
	Difference: 5676 (135%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		210 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 290, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
	Difference: 176000 (122%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 should be a lot (about 212%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 87008 (212%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 should be much (more or less 75%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21920 (75%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.