GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 290, which comes with a clock speed of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also uses a 512-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2560 SPUs, 160 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

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		19808 points
Radeon R9 290		9876 points
	Difference: 9932 (101%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 290 should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 57856 (22%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be quite a bit (more or less 91%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 290. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 116264 (91%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will be much (approximately 101%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R9 290, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 51648 (101%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.