AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 1024SP +73%

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

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GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

448

64

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GT215

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GT215-400-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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