AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon R9 270 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 +294%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

0.601 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

VS

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Mar 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

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

902 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

192

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.264 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.06 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

601.3 GFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.11 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GF116

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

GF116-200-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

106W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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