AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (1709MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +130%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GP104

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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