AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7950 GT AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 180W)

Score

Radeon R9 270X

VS

GeForce 7950 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 7 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

180W

TDP

65W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

G71

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

G71-GT2-H-N-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.278 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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