GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 295X2, which has a clock speed of 1018 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also features a 512-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 2816 SPUs, 176 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 295X2		21205 points
GeForce GTX 560		3030 points
	Difference: 18175 (600%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 350 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 295X2 should in theory perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 560 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
	Difference: 511872 (400%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 is a lot (more or less 690%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 312976 (690%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 104384 (403%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount 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 rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.