GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 270X, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1280 Stream Processors, 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

Radeon R9 270X		6590 points
GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
	Difference: 54 (1%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 270X		18 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (80%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 270X		177 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 950		155 Sol/s
	Difference: 22 (14%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon R9 270X		180 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 270X is 69% faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270X is quite a bit (about 63%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 30848 (63%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 will be a small bit (approximately 2%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 270X, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 768 (2%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface 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 ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.