GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 285, which has core speeds of 918 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 32 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 Ti		19808 points
Radeon R9 285		8500 points
	Difference: 11308 (133%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 285 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 86144 (49%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be quite a bit (about 138%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 285. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 141448 (138%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 73472 (250%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.