AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

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AMD Radeon R9 270

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 80% (1665MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 +584%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Feb 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

38

1280

Shading Units

4864

80

TMUs

152

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GA103S

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

GA103-200-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

496 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

6.5

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