AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 32MB VRAM GeForce2 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1050MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 5.312GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Apr 2000
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 2
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
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1050 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
166 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
179.2GB/s
Bandwidth
5.312GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1280
Shading Units
-
80
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
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-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
800.0 MPixel/s
84.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.600 GTexel/s
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-
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2.688 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
168.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
180W
TDP
Unknown
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Curacao
GPU Name
NV15
Curacao XT
(215-0848004)
GPU Variant
GeForce2 GTS
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
180 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.025 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
88 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.5
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
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5.1
Shader Model
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