AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA P104 101

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 4GB VRAM P104 101 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA P104 101 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1683MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (125W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

P104 101 +220%

8.617 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

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P104 101

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

269.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

134.6 GFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.617 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

269.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GP104

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

GP104-101-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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