Geforce GTX 770 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 290X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1250 MHz on this specific card. It features 2816 SPUs along with 176 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 290X		10609 points
Geforce GTX 770		7854 points
	Difference: 2755 (35%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290X		29 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 770		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 15 (107%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290X		369 Sol/s
Geforce GTX 770		70 Sol/s
	Difference: 299 (427%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 770		230 Watts
Radeon R9 290X		300 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 290X, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 770 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		320000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 770		224384 MB/sec
	Difference: 95616 (43%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290X will be just a bit (approximately 5%) better at AF than the Geforce GTX 770. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 770		133888 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6912 (5%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 290X is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		51200 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 770		33472 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17728 (53%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.