AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X +116%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Mar 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

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

854 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1280

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

365W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GF110

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

520 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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