AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X +146%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

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GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Unknown

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

837 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

1280

Shading Units

448

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

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2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

180W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GT215

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

GT215-400-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

144 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

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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