AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 270 NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 OEM 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 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 +206%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

0.773 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

VS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Apr 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.048 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.19 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

772.6 GFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

32.19 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GK106

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

65W

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 Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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