GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 270X, which features core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units 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

GeForce GTX Titan Black		11666 points
Radeon R9 270X		6590 points
	Difference: 5076 (77%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 270X		180 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should in theory be much superior to the Radeon R9 270X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270X		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 156800 (88%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black is much (about 167%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 270X. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 133360 (167%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black will be much (approximately 33%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 270X, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10672 (33%)

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 max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.