Nvidia Titan Xp vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 285, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 918 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1375 MHz on this card. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 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

Nvidia Titan Xp		27938 points
Radeon R9 285		8500 points
	Difference: 19438 (229%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Nvidia Titan Xp should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 285 in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 384845 (219%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp is quite a bit (more or less 269%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 285. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 276864 (269%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan Xp is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 122496 (417%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be 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 better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

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