NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 270

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

AMD Radeon R9 270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 +117%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

VS

Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

837 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

14

SM Count

-

448

Shading Units

1280

56

TMUs

80

40

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Curacao

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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