GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 290X, which comes with clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2816 SPUs along with 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290X		369 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1060		311 Sol/s
	Difference: 58 (19%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon R9 290X		10609 points
	Difference: 1750 (16%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 290X will be 63% faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290X should be a small bit (more or less 17%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20320 (17%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is quite a bit (more or less 41%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 290X, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.