GeForce GTX 650 Ti vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 295X2, which features a clock frequency of 1018 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also features a 512-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 2816 SPUs, 176 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 295X2		21205 points
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		3434 points
	Difference: 17771 (518%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		110 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 390 Watts (355%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 295X2 should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 553600 (641%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 is a lot (about 503%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		59392 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 298944 (503%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 is much (approximately 778%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		14848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 115456 (778%)

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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output 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.