Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 570, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1168 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, 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 290X		10609 points
	Difference: 1499 (14%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290X		369 Sol/s
Radeon RX 570		298 Sol/s
	Difference: 71 (24%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 290X should perform much faster than the Radeon RX 570 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is a small bit (more or less 6%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8704 (6%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 290X is superior to the Radeon RX 570, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher 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 the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.