GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 270, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1400 MHz on this model. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units 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 1060		12359 points
Radeon R9 270		5943 points
	Difference: 6416 (108%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1060 should in theory be a small bit faster than the Radeon R9 270 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 17408 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be a lot (more or less 67%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 270. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 48480 (67%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 43488 (151%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported 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 RAM, 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.