GeForce GTX 750 ti vs Radeon R9 270

[Ventanni]

If you go by pricing, then the more appropriate competitor to the 750-Ti is the R265. The R265 is the old 7850 with faster clocks, and sells for $149. It's more competitive performance wise, but pulls more wattage. Even still, we're talking less than a single lightbulb.

R265 vs 750Ti
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1127?vs=1130

There isn't a 270 listed in Anandtech's comparison, so I used the 7870 for comparison purposes. Even still, it's a slaughter when it comes to performance:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1034?vs=1130

The 750-Ti is mighty efficient though and isn't really intended to compete with the 270, but I can't wait to see more offerings from Nvidia's Maxwell architecture. It's looking to be pretty stellar imho.

 

[P39Airacobra]

Depends If going for that sort of card I think I'd be with the 'lowest noise/power that works' tendency, which is a 750ti.
(In fact I upgraded a 7850 to one. Content.).

Obviously different if you rate speed first and foremost, but then probably after something bigger than the 270 anyway.

Really? Because my HIS R9 270 is absolutely quiet too. Even when the card is overclocked to X model 1050mhz speed, the fans are still very very quiet.

 

[Qwertilot]

750ti very definitely less power draw and by some distance.

Noise is harder to be clear cut about. It should definitely be easier to cool but it all depends on tolerances/rest of system etc. From what I've seen on the silent pc forums etc, there's quite a lot of overbuilt cooling systems on 750ti's.

So they're often noisier than they should be but also a few exceedingly quiet models. Actually no one seems quite sure why there aren't any fully passive options yet. It should be more or less feasible.

For a change, its a fairly clear cut set of trade offs so whatever keeps you happy

 

[TeknoBug]

A R9 270 is normally $220 but has been $180 on sale lately where I am, it performs way better than an 750Ti which is $160-180 here.

The R9 270 is practically an HD7850 (which is a well known overclock beast), the GTX750Ti is just below a GTX660 ($220 range) or somewhat comparable to a 560Ti 448 edition. I have a 750Ti and I enjoy using it, does a great job at a fraction of power consumption of other cards in the same category.

I think the answer is obvious if both are at the same price range for you.

 

[RussianSensation]

A R9 270 is normally $220 but has been $180 on sale lately where I am, it performs way better than an 750Ti which is $160-180 here.

In US, 750Ti goes for $125 but R9 270X dropped to $170 (example 1, example 2).

But the real winner by far is the R9 270 for $130, 24% faster than 750Ti for $5 more!

 

[TreVader]

necro this is from april

 

[chane]

Sorry about these newbie questions, but I need to be sure about some things before I proceed with this special build. And the ASUS R9 270 looks like the right card, though I hope to work around its dastardly high idling power draw. This desktop needs to be very cool and quiet, as I'll be doing lots of stereo music serving to my external DAC. But ~ 20% of the time I will be doing DVD and 1080p (BluRay) encoding in Sony Vegas Pro 13-so I need some pretty serious hardware. Along with the ASUS Z97-A board , ASUS R9 270 graphics card (AMD rather than Nvidia GPUs seem to excel under Sony Vegas), the Haswell 4790K CPU seems like the best choice.

However, its pointless to accept the 4790K's power draw and heat, as its 4.0 GHz stock speed is a good 1.0GHz faster than I need for any of my music software and for websurfing. Fortunately, the Z97-A's extensive BIOS feature set will easily and safely allow the 4790K to be accordingly undervolted to run at, say, 3.2 GHz-the stock speed of the low power 4790S. Correct?

Then, on the other hand, when doing video encoding in Sony Vegas, I could opt to run the 4790K at its stock 4.0GHz-or even a bit beyond to maybe 4.4GHz. Yes? Can I do all of this with no problems?

But here's the frustrating snag in my master plan: The reviews seem to concur that despite its impressively low fan noise levels, the ASUS R9 270 card's power consumption tends to ramp up pretty fast, even at idle. So here's, what I think, may be one or two solutions:

Option 1.) A very unlikely solution but here it is: Can the 4790K's CPU be undervolted (underclocked) independent of its "on-chip" GPU? If so, then to maintain a cool and quiet low power draw pc (when not doing video encoding), I can undervolt the CPU, while running the chip's GPU at whatever voltage it needs for all around decent rendering (web surfing), while keeping the ASUS graphics card disabled via Windows Device Manager (or some similar utility in the ASUS Z97-A board's BIOS feature set). Will that work?

Option 2.) Install an additional video card-a decent one but very low power (fanless). Then, again, to maintain a cool and quiet low power draw pc, when not video encoding, I can disable the ASUS card, enable the low power card and undervolt the 4790K down to ~ 3.2GHz. A good cool and quiet pc solution? If yes, any suggestions for the low power (fanless) card? Thanks.

 

[lyssword]

haswell (4790) chips automatically undervolt/underclock while not doing something cpu intensive, from lets say 4.0ghz to 800 usually

 

[Martrox]

I know this is a bit off subject, but you can get an exceptional deals on HD7950's on ebay...just picked up one(Gigabyte Windforce) for $90 shipped. Yea...uses more power but......

 

[Keysplayr]

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-270-vs-GeForce-GTX-750-Ti

I have to say 270. But just looking at the sheer deficit in hardware between these two GPUs, the 750Ti is impressive in comparison.
750Ti is closer to R260/265 than it is R270.

 

[AtenRa]

I would wait for AMD Tonga first before I made any purchase as of now.

 

[Blue_Max]

I would wait for AMD Tonga first before I made any purchase as of now.

You suspect anything special about it? Like lower power usage, etc? All I know for sure is how many shaders it has and how it's gone from 384-bit down to 256...


...but I'm holding out for this new generation! (Itching to buy something!!) :awe:

 

[RussianSensation]

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-270-vs-GeForce-GTX-750-Ti

I have to say 270. But just looking at the sheer deficit in hardware between these two GPUs, the 750Ti is impressive in comparison.
750Ti is closer to R260/265 than it is R270.

There is actually an even better deal than R9 270.

R9 270X is $165 after 8% off and $10 MIR at Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-050-_-Product

vs. cheapest GTX750 Ti 2GB is $120

Calculating price/performance:

750 Ti 2GB = 100% for $120 or $1.20 for each 1% in performance
270X = 144% for $165 or $1.15 for each 1% in performance
http://www.computerbase.de/2014-08/grafikkarten-2014-im-vergleich-sommerausgabe/2/

The AMD card also comes with 2 free games.

But if you take a step back, it's remarkable that only $45 gets one a 44% increase in performance in 1080p. :thumbsup:

That's akin to spending $600 to upgrade from HD7970Ghz/770 to a GTX780Ti!! Incredible value. :biggrin:

 

[Keysplayr]

There is actually an even better deal than R9 270.

R9 270X is $165 after 8% off and $10 MIR at Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-050-_-Product

vs. cheapest GTX750 Ti 2GB is $120

Calculating price/performance:

750 Ti 2GB = 100% for $120 or $1.20 for each 1% in performance
270X = 144% for $165 or $1.15 for each 1% in performance
http://www.computerbase.de/2014-08/grafikkarten-2014-im-vergleich-sommerausgabe/2/

The AMD card also comes with 2 free games.

But if you take a step back, it's remarkable that only $45 gets one a 44% increase in performance in 1080p. :thumbsup:

That's akin to spending $600 to upgrade from HD7970Ghz/770 to a GTX780Ti!! Incredible value. :biggrin:

Well in that case, you could do this as well:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-508-_-Product

But in keeping on topic, i'd say 270.

 

[AtenRa]

You suspect anything special about it? Like lower power usage, etc? All I know for sure is how many shaders it has and how it's gone from 384-bit down to 256...


...but I'm holding out for this new generation! (Itching to buy something!!) :awe:

For people currently looking at 270/270X and 280, they should wait to see what Tonga brings to the table. It should have higher performance/watt and lower TDP than 280.

 

[Leyawiin]

Two different tools in the shed. If you want better performance there are of course better options for not tremendously much more. If you need the best performance per watt for some reason or have someone who wants an upgrade to their pre-built with a 300W PS that will actually allow them to game decently at 1080p the GTX 750 Ti is either the best choice or only choice.

The R9 270 is obviously the better card for a pittance more, but the GTX 750 Ti still amazes with what it can do with so little power.

 

[Qwertilot]

Just a note about passive 750ti's - a fully passive one now exists from Palit, and the Strix one from Asus seems to run passively an awful lot of the time.

Definitely nice to have the option of basically passive graphics cards that are actually sensibly usable for mainstream gaming.

 

[Blue_Max]

Just a note about passive 750ti's - a fully passive one now exists from Palit, and the Strix one from Asus seems to run passively an awful lot of the time.

Definitely nice to have the option of basically passive graphics cards that are actually sensibly usable for mainstream gaming.

I wish you hadn't said that... now I want one! I have a thing for silence...

 

[Magic Carpet]

Just a note about passive 750ti's - a fully passive one now exists from Palit, and the Strix one from Asus seems to run passively an awful lot of the time.

Definitely nice to have the option of basically passive graphics cards that are actually sensibly usable for mainstream gaming.

Zotac has also got one.

I still recommend some sort of active cooling inside the case, though. Besides, all of these cards have dimensions that you must be aware of.

My biggest gripe about first-gen Maxwell is relatively high long idle power consumption and inability to SLI the sucker. I am still using my 270s in crossfire

I wish you hadn't said that... now I want one! I have a thing for silence...

If you want silence, every component in your PC must be revised. You can start with your PSU, HDDs and case fans.