GeForce GTX Titan X vs Radeon R9 390X 8G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 390X 8G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this particular card. It features 2816 SPUs along with 176 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator 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

GeForce GTX Titan X		17879 points
Radeon R9 390X 8G		13555 points
	Difference: 4324 (32%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX Titan X		250 Watts
Radeon R9 390X 8G		275 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 390X 8G should be 14% faster than the GeForce GTX Titan X in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		384000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX Titan X		336000 MB/sec
	Difference: 48000 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan X will be a little bit (more or less 4%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 390X 8G. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		192000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 390X 8G		184800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7200 (4%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan X should be much (about 43%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 390X 8G, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 390X 8G		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 28800 (43%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.