GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 270, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this card. 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 950		6536 points
Radeon R9 270		5943 points
	Difference: 593 (10%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 270		15 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 5 (50%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 270 should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 73472 (69%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270 should be quite a bit (approximately 46%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22848 (46%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 should be a small bit (about 14%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R9 270, and also capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3968 (14%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 can be processed 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 the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per 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 clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes 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 ability to reach the max fill rate.