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GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1060 makes use of a 16 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1506 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 270X, which has a core clock speed of 1000 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 features 1280 SPUs, 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1060 311 Sol/s
Radeon R9 270X 177 Sol/s
Difference: 134 (76%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060 12359 points
Radeon R9 270X 6590 points
Difference: 5769 (88%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 120 Watts
Radeon R9 270X 180 Watts
Difference: 60 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1060 should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon R9 270X overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is a lot (about 51%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 270X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270X 80000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 40480 (51%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is superior to the Radeon R9 270X, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270X 32000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 40288 (126%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1060 Radeon R9 270X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2016 October 2013
Code Name GP106-400 Curacao XT
Memory 6144 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1506 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 180 watts
Bandwidth 196608 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 120480 Mtexels/sec 80000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 72288 Mpixels/sec 32000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1280 1280
Texture Mapping Units 80 80
Render Output Units 48 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 28 nm
Transistors 4400 million 2800 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output 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.

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GeForce GTX 1060

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