GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 295X2, which has core clock speeds of 1018 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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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 perform a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 will be a bit (approximately 18%) better at AF 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

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is a better choice, though not by far. (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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.