GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 295X2, which has GPU clock speed of 1018 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 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 210 Watts (72%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 295X2 should in theory be a little bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
	Difference: 17101 (3%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 is a small bit (approximately 18%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 55936 (18%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is just a bit (more or less 16%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 295X2, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20896 (16%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.