GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 270X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this particular model. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator 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 980 Ti		17120 points
Radeon R9 270X		6590 points
	Difference: 10530 (160%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		425 Sol/s
Radeon R9 270X		177 Sol/s
	Difference: 248 (140%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		22 Mh/s
Radeon R9 270X		18 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (22%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 270X		180 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 270X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270X		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 156800 (88%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be much (approximately 120%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 270X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 96000 (120%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is superior to the Radeon R9 270X, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 64000 (200%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This 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 graphics 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 video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 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 maximum fill rate.