AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 91.87GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 +179%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 SE

0.848 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

VS

GeForce GTX 560 SE

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Feb 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

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

957 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

91.87GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1280

Shading Units

288

80

TMUs

48

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

8.832 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.33 GTexel/s

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

847.9 GFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.66 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

150W

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

GF114-200-KB-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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