AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

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AMD Radeon R9 270 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 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 8 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 +516%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

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GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Mar 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

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

128

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

G92

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

197W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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