AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

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AMD Radeon R9 270

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 82% (1680MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 +172%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jan 2020

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

1280

Shading Units

1920

80

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

TU104

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

TU104-150-KC-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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