GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 270, which has a core clock speed of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1400 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It 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 1070 Ti		19808 points
Radeon R9 270		5943 points
	Difference: 13865 (233%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should theoretically be quite a bit better than the Radeon R9 270 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 82944 (46%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is a lot (about 239%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 270. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 172264 (239%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is superior to the Radeon R9 270, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 74048 (257%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure 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 graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.