AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 83% (1695MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe +83%

4.339 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Apr 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GA107

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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