GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 270X, which has GPU clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1280 SPUs, 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

Theoretically, 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 should be just a bit (more or less 11%) faster with regards to 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

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is superior to the Radeon R9 270X, not by a very large margin though. (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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to 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 maximum fill rate.