NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 54% (1620MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +177%

7.465 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2070 +401%

8863

Radeon R9 270X

1768

GeForce RTX 2070

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Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Oct 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

1000 MHz

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 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

36

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

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

33.60 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Curacao

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

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

Board Design

175W

TDP

180W

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

2x 6-pin

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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