GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 270X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1400 MHz on this specific model. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 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

GeForce GTX Titan		10162 points
Radeon R9 270X		6590 points
	Difference: 3572 (54%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 270X		180 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX Titan should be 61% faster than the Radeon R9 270X in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270X		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 109184 (61%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan will be a lot (more or less 134%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 270X. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 107488 (134%)

Pixel Rate

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

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8176 (26%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per 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 - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.