AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 512MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 OEM 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 1 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

1136 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X +496%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

0.451 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

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

902 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

1280

Shading Units

144

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.698 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.79 GTexel/s

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

451.0 GFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.58 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

106W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GF106

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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