GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 285, which has a core clock speed of 918 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1375 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1792 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 32 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 1070		18174 points
Radeon R9 285		8500 points
	Difference: 9674 (114%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (27%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1070 should be a lot faster than the Radeon R9 285 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 86144 (49%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 should be much (approximately 76%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 285. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 77904 (76%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 is superior to the Radeon R9 285, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 67008 (228%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock 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 rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.