GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 290, which has a clock speed of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also features a 512-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 2560 SPUs, 160 TAUs, and 64 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

Radeon R9 290		9876 points
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		7734 points
	Difference: 2142 (28%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290		283 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		138 Sol/s
	Difference: 145 (105%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 225 Watts (300%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 290 should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 205312 (179%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 will be quite a bit (about 107%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 66080 (107%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 should be a lot (about 24%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9920 (24%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high 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 of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.