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GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon R9 270X
Intro
The GeForce GTX 650 uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1058 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this card. It features 384 SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 16 ROPs.Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 270X, which has clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 TAUs and 32 ROPs.
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 |
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6590 points |
| GeForce GTX 650 |
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2263 points |
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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| GeForce GTX 650 |
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64 Watts |
| Radeon R9 270X |
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180 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
In theory, the Radeon R9 270X should be 124% quicker than the GeForce GTX 650 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)
| Radeon R9 270X |
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179200 MB/sec |
| GeForce GTX 650 |
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80000 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Radeon R9 270X will be quite a bit (about 136%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 650. (explain)| Radeon R9 270X |
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80000 Mtexels/sec |
| GeForce GTX 650 |
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33856 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 270X is superior to the GeForce GTX 650, and very much so. (explain)| Radeon R9 270X |
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32000 Mpixels/sec |
| GeForce GTX 650 |
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16928 Mpixels/sec |
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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
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
Specifications
| Model | GeForce GTX 650 | Radeon R9 270X |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | September 2012 | October 2013 |
| Code Name | GK107 | Curacao XT |
| Memory | 1024 MB | 2048 MB |
| Core Speed | 1058 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 5000 MHz | 5600 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 64 watts | 180 watts |
| Bandwidth | 80000 MB/sec | 179200 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 33856 Mtexels/sec | 80000 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 16928 Mpixels/sec | 32000 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 384 | 1280 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 32 | 80 |
| Render Output Units | 16 | 32 |
| Bus Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128-bit | 256-bit |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 1300 million | 2800 million |
| Bus | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 11.0 | DirectX 11.2 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.3 | OpenGL 4.3 |
Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. 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 is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.
GeForce GTX 650Amazon.com
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Radeon R9 270XAmazon.com
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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Comments
2 Responses to “GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon R9 270X”OK so why does my gtx 650 by glalxy in a 4 core w/4gb ram completely smoke my phenom II 6 core w/8gb ram r9 270x gaming series machine? And I do mean completely smoke... Anyone can answer this?
Josh, it all depends on what kind of game you're looking at. Knowing the specs of the 2 CPU's would actually help. If the 4-core rig's CPU is clocked higher, then that would win depending on what game you are testing out. If you're testing out MMO games or things that require CPU loadwork, a 4-core with higher clocks is better than a 6-core with lower clocks. Reason being, most games only use 2-cores max.