AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 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 and 1 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

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

1232 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 +1417%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Oct 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

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

6

1280

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

24

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

15.60 GTexel/s

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

G94B

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

196 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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