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GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti features a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and the 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 1750 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 2816 Stream Processors, 176 TAUs, and 96 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 290, which comes with a core clock speed of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also uses a 512-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 2560 SPUs, 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

GeForce GTX 980 Ti 17120 points
Radeon R9 290 9876 points
Difference: 7244 (73%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti 425 Sol/s
Radeon R9 290 283 Sol/s
Difference: 142 (50%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290 29 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 980 Ti 22 Mh/s
Difference: 7 (32%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti 250 Watts
Radeon R9 290 300 Watts
Difference: 50 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti should in theory be a bit better than the Radeon R9 290 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti 336000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 290 320000 MB/sec
Difference: 16000 (5%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is a lot (approximately 38%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 290. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti 176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290 128000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 48000 (38%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is superior to the Radeon R9 290, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti 96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290 51200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 44800 (88%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 980 Ti Radeon R9 290
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year June 2015 November 2013
Code Name GM200 Hawaii PRO
Memory 6144 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1000 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 336000 MB/sec 320000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 176000 Mtexels/sec 128000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 96000 Mpixels/sec 51200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2816 2560
Texture Mapping Units 176 160
Render Output Units 96 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 384-bit 512-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 8000 million 6200 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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