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GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti has a GPU core speed of 1607 MHz, and the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2432 SPUs, 152 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 290X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this particular card. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 19808 points
Radeon R9 290X 10609 points
Difference: 9199 (87%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 180 Watts
Radeon R9 290X 300 Watts
Difference: 120 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 290X will be 22% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be a lot (more or less 73%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 244264 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X 140800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 103464 (73%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will be quite a bit (more or less 101%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 290X, and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290X 51200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 51648 (101%)

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 Ti Radeon R9 290X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2017 October 2013
Code Name GP104-300 Hawaii XT
Memory 8192 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1607 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 180 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 262144 MB/sec 320000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 244264 Mtexels/sec 140800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 102848 Mpixels/sec 51200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2432 2816
Texture Mapping Units 152 176
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 4.6 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

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