NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

AMD Radeon R9 270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 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 RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 75% (1620MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +215%

7.465 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2070 +452%

8861

Radeon R9 270

1603

GeForce RTX 2070

VS

Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

36

SM Count

-

2304

Shading Units

1280

144

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Curacao

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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