Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages
Boost Clock925MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 270 1024SP
+75%
1894
GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
1078
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Unknown
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Base Clock
-
925 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
1024
Shading Units
512
64
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.86 GPixel/s
59.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.73 GTexel/s
1.894 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1078 GFLOPS
118.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
375W
450 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
GF100
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
GF100-ES-DT1-A2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
