AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

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AMD Radeon R9 270 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 450W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 172% (2520MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1010GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

15104 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 +3387%

82.58 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 270

1603

GeForce RTX 4090 +2179%

36541

Radeon R9 270

VS

GeForce RTX 4090

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Sep 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

1010GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

128

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

16384

80

TMUs

512

32

ROPs

176

-

Tensor Cores

512

-

RT Cores

128

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

72 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

443.5 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1290 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

82.58 TFLOPS

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

82.58 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1290 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

AD102

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

AD102-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

609 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

450W

450 W

Suggested PSU

850 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 16-pin

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

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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