GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 270X, which has GPU core speed of 1000 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1280 SPUs, 80 TAUs, 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 1050 Ti		7734 points
Radeon R9 270X		6590 points
	Difference: 1144 (17%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 270X		177 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		138 Sol/s
	Difference: 39 (28%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon R9 270X		180 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (140%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 270X should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270X will be quite a bit (more or less 29%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18080 (29%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be quite a bit (approximately 29%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R9 270X, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9280 (29%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.