GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 290, which features a clock frequency of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also features a 512-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 2560 SPUs, 160 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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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

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 290 should perform much 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 is much (more or less 91%) more effective at texture 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

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is a better choice, by far. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.