AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

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AMD Radeon R9 270

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 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 2 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)

944 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 +126%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

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GeForce GTX 460 v2

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Sep 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

1002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.19GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

7

1280

Shading Units

336

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GF114

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

332 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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