GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 285, which features clock speeds of 918 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 32 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 1070		18174 points
Radeon R9 285		8500 points
	Difference: 9674 (114%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (27%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1070 should theoretically be much better than the Radeon R9 285 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 86144 (49%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 should be a lot (about 76%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 285. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 77904 (76%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 67008 (228%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel 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 potential to get to the max fill rate.