GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 295X2, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1018 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also features a 512-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 2816 SPUs, 176 Texture Address Units, 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 295X2		21205 points
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		17120 points
	Difference: 4085 (24%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 250 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 295X2 should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
	Difference: 304000 (90%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 will be a lot (about 104%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 182336 (104%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is superior to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 34304 (36%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.