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GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

The GeForce GTX 960 makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1127 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 270, which features a GPU core clock speed of 900 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1280 Stream Processors, 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

GeForce GTX 960 7627 points
Radeon R9 270 5943 points
Difference: 1684 (28%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 270 15 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960 11 Mh/s
Difference: 4 (36%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960 120 Watts
Radeon R9 270 150 Watts
Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 270 should in theory be much superior to the GeForce GTX 960 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 270 179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960 112000 MB/sec
Difference: 67200 (60%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 is a small bit (more or less 0%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 270. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960 72128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270 72000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 128 (0%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be quite a bit (approximately 25%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R9 270, and able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960 36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270 28800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 7264 (25%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 960 Radeon R9 270
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2015 November 2013
Code Name GM206 Curacao Pro
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1127 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 112000 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 72128 Mtexels/sec 72000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 36064 Mpixels/sec 28800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1024 1280
Texture Mapping Units 64 80
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2940 million 2800 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per 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 - 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 960

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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