AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

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AMD Radeon R9 270 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 +49%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

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GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Nov 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

1002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GF110

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

GF110-375-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

Board Design

150W

TDP

244W

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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