GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs GeForce GTX 295

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 295, which makes use of a 55 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 576 MHz. The GDDR3 memory is set to run at a frequency of 999 MHz on this particular card. It features 240 SPUs as well as 80 Texture Address Units and 28 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
GeForce GTX 295		289 Watts
	Difference: 109 Watts (61%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 295 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 295		223776 MB/sec
	Difference: 38368 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will be much (approximately 165%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 295. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 295		92160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 152104 (165%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 295		32256 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 70592 (219%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.