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Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

The Geforce GTX 670 has a GPU core speed of 915 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 1500 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1344 SPUs, 112 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 270X, which has a core clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1400 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory 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

Geforce GTX 670 7351 points
Radeon R9 270X 6590 points
Difference: 761 (12%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 270X 18 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 670 13 Mh/s
Difference: 5 (38%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 670 170 Watts
Radeon R9 270X 180 Watts
Difference: 10 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 670 should in theory perform a small bit faster than the Radeon R9 270X overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670 192000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270X 179200 MB/sec
Difference: 12800 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 670 is much (about 28%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 270X. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670 102480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270X 80000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 22480 (28%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 270X will be a bit (more or less 9%) more effective at FSAA than the Geforce GTX 670, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X 32000 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 670 29280 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2720 (9%)

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 670 Radeon R9 270X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 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) 170 watts 180 watts
Bandwidth 192000 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 102480 Mtexels/sec 80000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29280 Mpixels/sec 32000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1344 1280
Texture Mapping Units 112 80
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-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 4.2 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core 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 is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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Geforce GTX 670

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Radeon R9 270X

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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