GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 295X2, which features a clock frequency of 1018 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also features a 512-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 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 1060		12359 points
	Difference: 8846 (72%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 380 Watts (317%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 295X2 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 443392 (226%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be much (approximately 197%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 237856 (197%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 58016 (80%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at 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 card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.