GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 290, which has a GPU core clock speed of 800 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also is made up of 2560 Stream Processors, 160 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1060		311 Sol/s
Radeon R9 290		283 Sol/s
	Difference: 28 (10%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon R9 290		9876 points
	Difference: 2483 (25%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 180 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 290 should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 123392 (63%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 will be just a bit (about 6%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7520 (6%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is quite a bit (about 41%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R9 290, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21088 (41%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.