AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 139% (2505MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

8448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 +1713%

48.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 270X

1769

GeForce RTX 4080 +1498%

28272

Radeon R9 270X

VS

GeForce RTX 4080

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

2205 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

716.8GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

76

1280

Shading Units

9728

80

TMUs

304

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

304

-

RT Cores

76

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

280.6 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

761.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

48.74 TFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.74 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

761.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

320W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

AD103

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

AD103-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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