GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 290X, which has GPU clock speed of 800 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also features 2816 Stream Processors, 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 1080		21942 points
Radeon R9 290X		10609 points
	Difference: 11333 (107%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1080		553 Sol/s
Radeon R9 290X		369 Sol/s
	Difference: 184 (50%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290X		29 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 1080		20 Mh/s
	Difference: 9 (45%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
Radeon R9 290X		300 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1080, in theory, should be a little bit faster than the Radeon R9 290X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
Radeon R9 290X		320000 MB/sec
	Difference: 7680 (2%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is quite a bit (about 83%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 116320 (83%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 will be quite a bit (more or less 101%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 290X, and able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		51200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 51648 (101%)

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 max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.