AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1064 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X +401%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2008

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

999 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

27

1280

Shading Units

216

80

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

28

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

171W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GT200B

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

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

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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