GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 290X, which features core speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 Texture Address Units 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

GeForce GTX 1080		21942 points
Radeon R9 290X		10609 points
	Difference: 11333 (107%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1080		553 Sol/s
Radeon R9 290X		369 Sol/s
	Difference: 184 (50%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290X		29 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 1080		20 Mh/s
	Difference: 9 (45%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
Radeon R9 290X		300 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1080 should theoretically be a little bit superior to the Radeon R9 290X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
Radeon R9 290X		320000 MB/sec
	Difference: 7680 (2%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is much (approximately 83%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 116320 (83%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1080 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		51200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 51648 (101%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.