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GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 915 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1500 MHz on this model. It features 1344 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 270X, which has a clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency 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 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

Radeon R9 270X 6590 points
GeForce GTX 660 Ti 6013 points
Difference: 577 (10%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 150 Watts
Radeon R9 270X 180 Watts
Difference: 30 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 270X should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X 179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 660 Ti 144000 MB/sec
Difference: 35200 (24%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti will be much (approximately 28%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 270X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 102480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270X 80000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 22480 (28%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 270X will be quite a bit (approximately 46%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X 32000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 660 Ti 21960 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 10040 (46%)

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 660 Ti Radeon R9 270X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year August 2012 October 2013
Code Name GK104 Curacao XT
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 915 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 6000 MHz 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 180 watts
Bandwidth 144000 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 102480 Mtexels/sec 80000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 21960 Mpixels/sec 32000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1344 1280
Texture Mapping Units 112 80
Render Output Units 24 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3540 million 2800 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at 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 can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 660 Ti

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