Nvidia Titan Xp vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 290X, which comes with GPU clock speed of 800 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also is made up of 2816 Stream Processors, 176 TAUs, 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 290X		10609 points
	Difference: 17329 (163%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Nvidia Titan Xp		810 Sol/s
Radeon R9 290X		369 Sol/s
	Difference: 441 (120%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Nvidia Titan Xp should be much faster than the Radeon R9 290X overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp should be much (approximately 170%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 238880 (170%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan Xp is superior to the Radeon R9 290X, by a large margin. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.