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Radeon HD 7870 XT vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

The Radeon HD 7870 XT features a clock speed of 925 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 1536 SPUs, 96 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon R9 270, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this model. 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 HD 7870 XT 6390 points
Radeon R9 270 5943 points
Difference: 447 (8%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7870 XT 15 Mh/s
Radeon R9 270 15 Mh/s
Difference: 0 (0%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 270 150 Watts
Radeon HD 7870 XT 185 Watts
Difference: 35 Watts (23%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 7870 XT should in theory be a bit faster than the Radeon R9 270 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT 192000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270 179200 MB/sec
Difference: 12800 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7870 XT will be a lot (about 23%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 270. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT 88800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270 72000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 16800 (23%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7870 XT is a better choice, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT 29600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270 28800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 800 (3%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 7870 XT Radeon R9 270
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year November 2012 November 2013
Code Name Tahiti LE Curacao Pro
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 925 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 6000 MHz 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 185 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 192000 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 88800 Mtexels/sec 72000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29600 Mpixels/sec 28800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1536 1280
Texture Mapping Units 96 80
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 4313 million 2800 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.1 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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