GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 290, which comes with GPU clock speed of 800 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also features 2560 Stream Processors, 160 Texture Address Units, 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 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 290 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
	Difference: 302899 (95%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should be quite a bit (approximately 136%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 290. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 174400 (136%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 100000 (195%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.