GeForce GTX Titan X vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 290X, which comes with a clock speed of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also uses a 512-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2816 SPUs, 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 X		17879 points
Radeon R9 290X		10609 points
	Difference: 7270 (69%)

Grand Theft Auto V | 1920x1080 | Very High

GeForce GTX Titan X		82 FPS
Radeon R9 290X		60 FPS
	Difference: 22 (37%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX Titan X should theoretically be a bit superior to the Radeon R9 290X overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan X is a lot (approximately 36%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		192000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 51200 (36%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan X should be quite a bit (more or less 88%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R9 290X, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		51200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 44800 (88%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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