GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 290, which features core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1060		311 Sol/s
Radeon R9 290		283 Sol/s
	Difference: 28 (10%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon R9 290		9876 points
	Difference: 2483 (25%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 180 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 290 should theoretically be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 123392 (63%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 should be just a bit (more or less 6%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7520 (6%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be a lot (more or less 41%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 290, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21088 (41%)

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.

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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 within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core 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 output 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 reach the max fill rate.