GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 295X2, which features GPU clock speed of 1018 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also is made up of 2816 Stream Processors, 176 TAUs, 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 1070		18174 points
	Difference: 3031 (17%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 350 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 295X2 will be 144% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1070 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 377856 (144%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be quite a bit (approximately 98%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1070. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 177616 (98%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution 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 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33920 (35%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure 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 video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.