AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 88% (1740MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +200%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1545 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

90W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GA107

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

GA107-140-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 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

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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