AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270

NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 205 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (31W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 +5162%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce 205 OEM

0.045 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

VS

GeForce 205 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Nov 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1280

Shading Units

16

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.86 GFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

31W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GT218

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

GT218-200-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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