GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 270, which comes with core speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (93%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon R9 270 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 443699 (248%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti will be a lot (approximately 320%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 270. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 230400 (320%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is much (about 425%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 270, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 122400 (425%)

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 MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.