GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 270, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this specific model. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 Texture Address Units 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 980 Ti		17120 points
Radeon R9 270		5943 points
	Difference: 11177 (188%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		22 Mh/s
Radeon R9 270		15 Mh/s
	Difference: 7 (47%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 270 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 156800 (88%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is a lot (approximately 144%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 270. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 104000 (144%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is much (about 233%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R9 270, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 67200 (233%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's 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 per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.