Nvidia Titan Xp vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 290, which features a clock frequency of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also uses a 512-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2560 SPUs, 160 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 290		9876 points
	Difference: 18062 (183%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Nvidia Titan Xp		810 Sol/s
Radeon R9 290		283 Sol/s
	Difference: 527 (186%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Nvidia Titan Xp should be 75% quicker than the Radeon R9 290 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
	Difference: 240845 (75%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp is much (approximately 197%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 290. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 251680 (197%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp should be much (more or less 197%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 290, and capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 100672 (197%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.