AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

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AMD Radeon R9 270X NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 220 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 's Advantages

Lower TDP (58W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X +1766%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 220

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

GeForce GT 220

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

G94

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

58W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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