Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 270, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1400 MHz on this particular card. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 270		5943 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 20 (0%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 270		15 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Geforce GTX 760 should theoretically be a little bit better than the Radeon R9 270 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 13056 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 will be much (approximately 31%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 270. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22080 (31%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is a better choice, though not by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2560 (9%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure 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 video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.