AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1683MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +140%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Dec 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

1280

Shading Units

1920

80

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GP104

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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