GeForce GT 440 1.5GB vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 290, which has a GPU core clock speed of 800 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also features 2560 Stream Processors, 160 Texture Address Units, 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

Radeon R9 290		9876 points
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		840 points
	Difference: 9036 (1076%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		56 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 244 Watts (436%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 290 will be 641% quicker than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		43200 MB/sec
	Difference: 276800 (641%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 should be a lot (more or less 798%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 113744 (798%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 should be a lot (more or less 259%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36944 (259%)

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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.