GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 295X2, which has GPU clock speed of 1018 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also is made up of 2816 Stream Processors, 176 Texture Address Units, 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

Radeon R9 295X2		21205 points
GeForce GTX 1070		18174 points
	Difference: 3031 (17%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 350 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 295X2 should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 1070 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 377856 (144%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be much (about 98%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 1070. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 177616 (98%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is superior to the GeForce GTX 1070, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33920 (35%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 applied in one 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. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output 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 max fill rate.