Nvidia Titan Xp vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 295X2, which comes with core speeds of 1018 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2816 SPUs along with 176 Texture Address Units 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

Nvidia Titan Xp		27938 points
Radeon R9 295X2		21205 points
	Difference: 6733 (32%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 250 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 295X2, in theory, should perform a little bit faster than the Nvidia Titan Xp overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
	Difference: 79155 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp should be a little bit (more or less 6%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 295X2. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21344 (6%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp is a little bit (approximately 17%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 295X2, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21568 (17%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR 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 per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.