AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 +1038%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

VS

GeForce 9600 GT

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Feb 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

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

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

1280

Shading Units

64

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.80 GTexel/s

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

208.0 GFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

95W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

G94

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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