Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 270, which has a clock speed of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1400 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 1280 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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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 760		5923 points
	Difference: 20 (0%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 270		15 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 760 should in theory perform a little bit faster than the Radeon R9 270 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 13056 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 should be a lot (about 31%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 270. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22080 (31%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is a little bit (approximately 9%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R9 270, and capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2560 (9%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill 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 get to the maximum fill rate.