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GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

The GeForce GTX 295 comes with a clock speed of 576 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 999 MHz. It also features a 448-bit bus, and makes use of a 55 nm design. It is comprised of 240 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 28 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 560, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1175 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560 80 Watts
GeForce GTX 295 289 Watts
Difference: 209 Watts (261%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 295 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 560 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295 223776 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560 114688 MB/sec
Difference: 109088 (95%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 is quite a bit (approximately 23%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 560. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295 92160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 560 75200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 16960 (23%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 295 is superior to the Radeon RX 560, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295 32256 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560 18800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 13456 (72%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 295 Radeon RX 560
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 8, 2009 May 2017
Code Name G200b Baffin
Memory 896 MB (x2) 4096 MB
Core Speed 576 MHz (x2) 1175 MHz
Memory Speed 1998 MHz (x2) 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 289 watts 80 watts
Bandwidth 223776 MB/sec 114688 MB/sec
Texel Rate 92160 Mtexels/sec 75200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 32256 Mpixels/sec 18800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 240 (x2) 1024
Texture Mapping Units 80 (x2) 64
Render Output Units 28 (x2) 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 448-bit (x2) 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 14 nm
Transistors 1400 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 295

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Radeon RX 560

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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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