GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 270X, which features core speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. 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

Radeon R9 270X		6590 points
GeForce GTX 950M		3330 points
	Difference: 3260 (98%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950M		55 Watts
Radeon R9 270X		180 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (227%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 270X should in theory be much superior to the GeForce GTX 950M in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 147200 (460%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270X should be a lot (about 119%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950M. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 43440 (119%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 270X is superior to the GeForce GTX 950M, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17376 (119%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.