AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1203MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X +9%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

2.464 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

937 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1203 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.50 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.99 GTexel/s

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2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.464 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.99 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GM206S

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

950 OEM

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

228 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

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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