AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 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 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 96% (1815MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (495.9GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +370%

11.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 270

1603

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +620%

11544

Radeon R9 270

VS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jul 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1650 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1815 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

495.9GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

1280

Shading Units

3072

80

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

116.2 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

348.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

22.30 TFLOPS

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.15 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

348.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

TU104

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

TU104-450-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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