AMD Radeon R9 270 VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
amd
Brand2GB GDDR5
Memory1280
Cores179.2 GB/s
BandwidthRadeon R9 270
nvidia
Brand4GB GDDR5
Memory1664
Cores224.4 GB/s
BandwidthGeForce GTX 970
AMD Radeon R9 270
Radeon R9 270
$179 • Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 970
$329 • Sep 2014
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Specs Comparison
| Specification | AMD Radeon R9 270 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 2 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| TDP | 150 W | 148 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 925 MHz | 1178 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 179.2 GB/s | 224.4 GB/s |
| Process Size | 28nm | 28nm |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Maxwell 2.0 |
| Shading Units | 1280 | 1664 |
| RT Cores | N/A | N/A |
| TMUs | 80 | 104 |
| ROPs | 32 | 56 |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1400 MHz | 1753 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 29.6 GPixel/s | 65.97 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 179.2 GTexel/s | 224.4 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 2.368 GFLOPS | 3.92 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 0.50 MB | 2.00 MB |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | 398 mm² |
| Transistors | 2800 Million | 5200 Million |
| Required PSU | 450 W | 300 W |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | 2x 6-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 11.1 | 12.1 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
AMD Radeon R9 270
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
AMD Radeon R9 270
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
AMD Radeon R9 270
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon R9 270
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
AMD Radeon R9 270
AMD • 2GB GDDR5
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA • 4GB GDDR5
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