Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 270X, which comes with clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 TAUs and 32 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

Radeon R9 270X		6590 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 2209 (50%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 270X		18 Mh/s
Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (29%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 270X		177 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 82 (86%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
Radeon R9 270X		180 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (57%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 270X should in theory be much superior to the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		179200 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 75200 (72%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270X should be quite a bit (approximately 30%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18400 (30%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 270X will be quite a bit (more or less 82%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14400 (82%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few 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.