AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA RTX A1000

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA RTX A1000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 8GB VRAM RTX A1000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A1000 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1462MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

RTX A1000 +150%

6.737 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

RTX A1000

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2024

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

727 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1462 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

18

1280

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.78 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.737 TFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.737 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GA107

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 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

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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