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GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

The GeForce GTX Titan Black features a GPU core speed of 889 MHz, and the 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 1750 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 2880 SPUs, 240 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 290X, which has core speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2816 SPUs along with 176 TAUs 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

GeForce GTX Titan Black 11666 points
Radeon R9 290X 10609 points
Difference: 1057 (10%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX Titan Black 250 Watts
Radeon R9 290X 300 Watts
Difference: 50 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should theoretically perform a small bit faster than the Radeon R9 290X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black 336000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 290X 320000 MB/sec
Difference: 16000 (5%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black is quite a bit (more or less 52%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black 213360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X 140800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 72560 (52%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 290X is the winner, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X 51200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan Black 42672 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 8528 (20%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX Titan Black Radeon R9 290X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year February 2014 October 2013
Code Name GK110-430 Hawaii XT
Memory 6144 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 889 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 336000 MB/sec 320000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 213360 Mtexels/sec 140800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 42672 Mpixels/sec 51200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2880 2816
Texture Mapping Units 240 176
Render Output Units 48 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 384-bit 512-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 7080 million 6200 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.4 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX Titan Black

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Radeon R9 290X

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

Comments

One Response to “GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Radeon R9 290X”
Ryan says:

How would 2 r9 290x cards compare to 1 6GB EVGA GTX Titan Black SC, 967MHz GPU, 2880 Cores, 7000MHz GDDR5 card

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