GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 270, which features a core clock speed of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1400 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1280 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation 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 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 2477 (71%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 270 will be 40% faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 50944 (40%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270 should be quite a bit (more or less 37%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19392 (37%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 270 is a little bit (more or less 9%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2496 (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount 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 clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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