GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 270, which has clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 Texture Address Units 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

Radeon R9 270		5943 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 2477 (71%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 270 should be 40% faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 50944 (40%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270 will be a lot (about 37%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19392 (37%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 270 is the winner, but only just. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2496 (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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.