AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 24GB VRAM A30 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 165W)

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 56% (1440MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe +335%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Apr 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

1280

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

GA100

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

5.1

Shader Model

N/A

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 270 vs ATI Radeon HD 4670 X2

2

AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon R7 250

3

AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

4

AMD Radeon R9 270 vs ATI FireMV 2250 PCIe x1

5

AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

6

AMD Radeon R9 270 vs ATI Radeon HD 3570

7

AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

8

AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

9

AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

10

AMD Radeon R9 270 vs ATI Radeon X1550

Related News

1

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

2

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

3

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

4

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

5

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

6

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

7

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

8

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

9

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early

10

Linux Creator Criticizes AMD and Intel's x86 Microarchitecture: A Complete Disaster