nvidia
Brand24GB GDDR6X
Memory16384
Cores1010 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
amd
Brand2GB GDDR5
Memory1280
Cores179.2 GB/s
BandwidthAMD Radeon R9 270
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce RTX 4090
$1599 • Sep 2022
Radeon R9 270
$179 • Nov 2013
AMD Radeon R9 270
Specs Comparison
| Specification | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | AMD Radeon R9 270 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 24 GB | 2 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6X | GDDR5 |
| TDP | 450 W | 150 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 2520 MHz | 925 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 1010 GB/s | 179.2 GB/s |
| Process Size | 5nm | 28nm |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | GCN 1.0 |
| Shading Units | 16384 | 1280 |
| RT Cores | 128 | N/A |
| TMUs | 512 | 80 |
| ROPs | 176 | 32 |
| Memory Bus | 384-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1313 MHz | 1400 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 443.5 GPixel/s | 29.6 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 1.01 GTexel/s | 179.2 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 82.58 GFLOPS | 2.368 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 72.00 MB | 0.50 MB |
| Die Size | 609 mm² | 212 mm² |
| Transistors | 76300 Million | 2800 Million |
| Required PSU | 850 W | 450 W |
| Power Connectors | 1x 16-pin | 1x 6-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 12.2 | 11.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | N/A |
| 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
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
AMD Radeon R9 270
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
AMD Radeon R9 270
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
AMD Radeon R9 270
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
AMD Radeon R9 270
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA • 24GB GDDR6X
AMD Radeon R9 270
AMD • 2GB GDDR5
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