NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

AMD Radeon R9 270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 82% (1683MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 +172%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1070 +278%

6067

Radeon R9 270

1603

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

15

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

1280

120

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Curacao

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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