GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 270, which has 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 TAUs 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 1070		18174 points
Radeon R9 270		5943 points
	Difference: 12231 (206%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1070 is 46% faster than the Radeon R9 270 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 82944 (46%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 should be quite a bit (approximately 151%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 270. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 108720 (151%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 is superior to the Radeon R9 270, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 67584 (235%)

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

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.