Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 295X2, which comes with clock speeds of 1018 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. 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 295X2		21205 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 15282 (258%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 330 Watts (194%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 295X2 should perform a lot faster than the Geforce GTX 760 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 447744 (233%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be much (about 281%) faster with regards to AF than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 264256 (281%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is superior to the Geforce GTX 760, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 98944 (316%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.