In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti SLI are massively better than the AMD Radeon R9 270X Gigabyte 4GB OC Edition Crossfire.

The RTX 2080 Ti has a 300 MHz higher core clock speed and 112 more Texture Mapping Units than the R9 270X. This results in the RTX 2080 Ti providing 199.2 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The RTX 2080 Ti has a 300 MHz higher core clock speed and 24 more Render Output Units than the R9 270X. This results in the RTX 2080 Ti providing 51.6 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The RTX 2080 Ti was released over three years more recently than the R9 270X, and so the RTX 2080 Ti is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the R9 270X when running the latest games.

Both GPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings.

The RTX 2080 Ti has 3072 MB more video memory than the R9 270X, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the RTX 2080 Ti also has superior memory performance overall.

The RTX 2080 Ti has 257.6 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the R9 270X, which means that the memory performance of the RTX 2080 Ti is massively better than the R9 270X.

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti SLI has 4352 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon R9 270X Gigabyte 4GB OC Edition Crossfire has 2560. However, the actual shader performance of the RTX 2080 Ti is 7116 and the actual shader performance of the R9 270X is 2394. The RTX 2080 Ti having 4722 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the RTX 2080 Ti delivers a massively smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the R9 270X.

The RTX 2080 Ti transistor size technology is 16 nm (nanometers) smaller than the R9 270X. This means that the RTX 2080 Ti is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the R9 270X.

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti SLI requires 260 Watts to run and the Radeon R9 270X Gigabyte 4GB OC Edition Crossfire requires 180 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 650 Watts for the RTX 2080 Ti and a PSU with at least 750 Watts for the R9 270X. The RTX 2080 Ti requires 80 Watts more than the R9 270X to run. The difference is significant enough that the RTX 2080 Ti may have an adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the R9 270X.