GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 270X, which features a core clock speed of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1400 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1280 SPUs, 80 TAUs, 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

In theory, the Radeon R9 270X should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270X will be quite a bit (more or less 63%) faster with regards to 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

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is the winner, but only just. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.