GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 270X, which has clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. 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 960		7627 points
Radeon R9 270X		6590 points
	Difference: 1037 (16%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 270X		177 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 960		154 Sol/s
	Difference: 23 (15%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 270X		18 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 7 (64%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon R9 270X		180 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 270X should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270X is a little bit (about 11%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7872 (11%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 will be a small bit (approximately 13%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R9 270X, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4064 (13%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.