AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 730 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Lower TDP (49W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 +780%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 730

0.269 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 270 +384%

1603

GeForce GT 730

331

Radeon R9 270

VS

GeForce GT 730

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jun 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

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

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1280

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

49W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GF108

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

GF108-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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