GeForce GTX 750 vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 290, which comes with core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 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

Radeon R9 290		9876 points
GeForce GTX 750		3958 points
	Difference: 5918 (150%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 750		55 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 245 Watts (445%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 290 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 750 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 750		80000 MB/sec
	Difference: 240000 (300%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 should be a lot (approximately 292%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 750. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 750		32640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 95360 (292%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 290 is superior to the GeForce GTX 750, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 750		16320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 34880 (214%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.