GeForce GTX Titan X vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 270X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this particular model. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 TAUs 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

GeForce GTX Titan X		17879 points
Radeon R9 270X		6590 points
	Difference: 11289 (171%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX Titan X is 88% quicker than the Radeon R9 270X overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan X will be quite a bit (more or less 140%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 270X. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		192000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 112000 (140%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan X is superior to the Radeon R9 270X, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 64000 (200%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.