GeForce GTX 750 vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 270X, which features clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. 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 270X		6590 points
GeForce GTX 750		3958 points
	Difference: 2632 (66%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 750		55 Watts
Radeon R9 270X		180 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (227%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 270X should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 750 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 750		80000 MB/sec
	Difference: 99200 (124%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270X will be a lot (approximately 145%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 750. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 750		32640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 47360 (145%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 270X is a lot (more or less 96%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 750, and capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 750		16320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15680 (96%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.