GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 270, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this specific card. 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 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

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 270 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270 will be much (approximately 37%) more effective at AF 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 just a bit (approximately 9%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.