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GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti has clock speeds of 915 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1344 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 24 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon R9 270, which features GPU core speed of 900 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1280 Stream Processors, 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 660 Ti 6013 points
Radeon R9 270 5943 points
Difference: 70 (1%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 270 will be 24% quicker than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti is much (more or less 42%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 270. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 102480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270 72000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 30480 (42%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 270 will be much (about 31%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 270 28800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 660 Ti 21960 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6840 (31%)

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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GeForce GTX 660 Ti

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 660 Ti Radeon R9 270
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year August 2012 November 2013
Code Name GK104 Curacao Pro
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 915 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 6000 MHz 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 144000 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 102480 Mtexels/sec 72000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 21960 Mpixels/sec 28800 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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). 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.

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GeForce GTX 660 Ti

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Radeon R9 270

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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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