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GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1070 features a GPU core speed of 1506 MHz, and the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1920 SPUs, 120 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 290X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this particular card. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 TAUs 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 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 will be 22% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1070 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 is a lot (approximately 28%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 should be much (approximately 88%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 290X, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1070 Radeon R9 290X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year June 2016 October 2013
Code Name GP104-200 Hawaii XT
Memory 8192 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1506 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 262144 MB/sec 320000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 180720 Mtexels/sec 140800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 96384 Mpixels/sec 51200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1920 2816
Texture Mapping Units 120 176
Render Output Units 64 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 512-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 28 nm
Transistors 7200 million 6200 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs 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 rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1070

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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