AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

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AMD Radeon R9 270X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 11GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1582MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (11GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +321%

11.34 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 270X

1768

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +458%

9872

Radeon R9 270X

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GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Mar 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1481 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1582 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

11GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

352bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

484.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

88

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

0 MB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

139.2 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

354.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

177.2 GFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.34 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

354.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GP102

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

GP102-350-K1-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

11.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

471 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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