GeForce GTX 1650 vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 290, which has clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1650		75 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 225 Watts (300%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 290, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1650 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1650		131072 MB/sec
	Difference: 188928 (144%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 should be a lot (approximately 54%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1650. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1650		83160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 44840 (54%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 290 is the winner, but only just. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1650		47520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3680 (8%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.