GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 270X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1400 MHz on this specific 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 1070		18174 points
Radeon R9 270X		6590 points
	Difference: 11584 (176%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1070		436 Sol/s
Radeon R9 270X		177 Sol/s
	Difference: 259 (146%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
Radeon R9 270X		180 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1070 should be much faster than the Radeon R9 270X in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 is a lot (more or less 126%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 270X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 100720 (126%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 is superior to the Radeon R9 270X, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 64384 (201%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel 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 ability to reach the maximum fill rate.