AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (83W vs 150W)

Score

Radeon R9 270

VS

Quadro FX 3450

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jul 2005

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

83W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

NV41

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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