AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1188MHz vs 925MHz)

Lower TDP (90W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 +29%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 270

1603

GeForce GTX 950 +16%

1862

Radeon R9 270

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Aug 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

90W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GM206

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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