AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 570 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 11 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 152.0GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 219W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 +68%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 570

1.405 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

VS

GeForce GTX 570

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Dec 2010

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

950 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

152.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

1280

Shading Units

480

80

TMUs

60

32

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.96 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.92 GTexel/s

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1405 GFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

175.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

219W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

GF110

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

GF110-275-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

520 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

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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