GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 290X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1250 MHz on this model. It features 2816 SPUs along with 176 Texture Address Units 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 290X		300 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R9 290X overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
Radeon R9 290X		320000 MB/sec
	Difference: 302899 (95%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should be quite a bit (more or less 115%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 161600 (115%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is quite a bit (about 195%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 290X, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		51200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 100000 (195%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.