GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 290X, which features a core clock speed of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also makes use of a 512-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2816 SPUs, 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 1070		18174 points
Radeon R9 290X		10609 points
	Difference: 7565 (71%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1070		436 Sol/s
Radeon R9 290X		369 Sol/s
	Difference: 67 (18%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
Radeon R9 290X		300 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 290X is 22% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1070 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		320000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 57856 (22%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 will be much (approximately 28%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39920 (28%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 is superior to the Radeon R9 290X, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		51200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 45184 (88%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill 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 get to the max fill rate.