GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 270, which features a core clock speed of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1400 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1280 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation 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 1060		12359 points
Radeon R9 270		5943 points
	Difference: 6416 (108%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1060 should in theory be a little bit superior to the Radeon R9 270 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 17408 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is a lot (approximately 67%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 270. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 48480 (67%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be much (approximately 151%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 270, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 43488 (151%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied 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 this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.