GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 295X2, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1018 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this particular model. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 Texture Address Units 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

Radeon R9 295X2		21205 points
GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
	Difference: 8846 (72%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 380 Watts (317%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 295X2 should in theory be much faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 443392 (226%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be a lot (more or less 197%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 237856 (197%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is superior to the GeForce GTX 1060, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 58016 (80%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount 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 speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling 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 its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.