NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 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 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 149% (2610MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

6400 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 285W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +1391%

40.09 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 40

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

2610 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

60

SM Count

-

7680

Shading Units

1280

240

TMUs

80

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

208.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

626.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

40.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

40.09 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

626.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

285W

TDP

180W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Curacao

AD104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

295 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

8.9

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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