GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 295X2, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1018 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this specific card. 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

Radeon R9 295X2		21205 points
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		19808 points
	Difference: 1397 (7%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 320 Watts (178%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 295X2 should in theory be much superior to the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 377856 (144%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 is a lot (approximately 47%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 114072 (47%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27456 (27%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.