Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 570, which comes with clock speeds of 1168 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 32 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 RX 570		12108 points
Radeon R9 290		9876 points
	Difference: 2232 (23%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		298 Sol/s
Radeon R9 290		283 Sol/s
	Difference: 15 (5%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290		29 Mh/s
Radeon RX 570		26 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (12%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 290 should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon RX 570 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 90624 (40%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 should be a bit (approximately 17%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 290. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21504 (17%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 290 is superior to the Radeon RX 570, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13824 (37%)

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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

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