GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 295X2, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1018 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1250 MHz on this model. It features 2816 SPUs along with 176 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 210 Watts (72%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 295X2 should perform a little bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
	Difference: 17101 (3%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be a little bit (about 18%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 55936 (18%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is superior to the Radeon R9 295X2, though not by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20896 (16%)

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.

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Specifications

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

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the 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 speed of the card. 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 also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.