GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 270, which comes with GPU core speed of 900 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also 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

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		7734 points
Radeon R9 270		5943 points
	Difference: 1791 (30%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 270, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 64512 (56%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270 is a bit (about 16%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10080 (16%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is a lot (about 43%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 270, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12480 (43%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.