AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 180W)

Score

Radeon R9 270X

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2006

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

NV43

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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