AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

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AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1190MHz vs 925MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 1024SP +3%

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

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GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Mar 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1026 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

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1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GM206

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GM206-251-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

228 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

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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