GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 290, which features GPU core speed of 800 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also is comprised of 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 570		4387 points
	Difference: 5489 (125%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290		29 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 570		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 16 (123%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 81 Watts (37%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 290 should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GTX 570 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
	Difference: 168000 (111%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 should be much (more or less 191%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 84080 (191%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 290 is superior to the GeForce GTX 570, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.