Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 290, which has 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 is made up of 2560 Stream Processors, 160 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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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 290		9876 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 3953 (67%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290		29 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 16 (123%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (76%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 290 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 760 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 127744 (66%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 is quite a bit (more or less 36%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 33920 (36%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 should be quite a bit (more or less 63%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Geforce GTX 760, and able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19840 (63%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.