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GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1607 MHz, and the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2432 SPUs, 152 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 290X, which features a GPU core clock speed of 800 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also is made up of 2816 Stream Processors, 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

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 19808 points
Radeon R9 290X 10609 points
Difference: 9199 (87%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 290X should be 22% faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be a lot (more or less 73%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 244264 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X 140800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 103464 (73%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be much (more or less 101%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R9 290X, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290X 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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Radeon R9 290X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2017 October 2013
Code Name GP104-300 Hawaii XT
Memory 8192 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1607 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 180 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 262144 MB/sec 320000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 244264 Mtexels/sec 140800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 102848 Mpixels/sec 51200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2432 2816
Texture Mapping Units 152 176
Render Output Units 64 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 512-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 28 nm
Transistors 7200 million 6200 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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