GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 270, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1400 MHz on this card. 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 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

Theoretically, 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 will be much (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

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is superior to the Radeon R9 270, by far. (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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.