GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 290X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this specific card. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
Radeon R9 290X		300 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should in theory be much faster than the Radeon R9 290X overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should be much (approximately 115%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 161600 (115%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti will be quite a bit (about 195%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 290X, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		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 max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.