GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 295X2, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1018 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1250 MHz on this card. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 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 295X2		21205 points
GeForce GTX Titan		10162 points
	Difference: 11043 (109%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 250 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 295X2 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX Titan in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
	Difference: 351616 (122%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 will be a lot (about 91%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX Titan. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 170848 (91%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is superior to the GeForce GTX Titan, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 90128 (224%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.