GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 270, which features core 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 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

Radeon R9 270		5943 points
GeForce GTX 960M		4350 points
	Difference: 1593 (37%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (131%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 270 is 180% faster than the GeForce GTX 960M overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 115200 (180%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270 is quite a bit (more or less 64%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28160 (64%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 270 is a lot (more or less 64%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GTX 960M, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11264 (64%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.