GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 270X, which comes with core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1280 SPUs along with 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

GeForce GTX 980		13552 points
Radeon R9 270X		6590 points
	Difference: 6962 (106%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980		20 Mh/s
Radeon R9 270X		18 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (11%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980		408 Sol/s
Radeon R9 270X		177 Sol/s
	Difference: 231 (131%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980		165 Watts
Radeon R9 270X		180 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 980, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 270X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270X		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 44800 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 is much (more or less 80%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 270X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 64128 (80%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 is quite a bit (more or less 125%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R9 270X, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40064 (125%)

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: Memory 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. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. 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 output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.