
nvidia
Brand24GB GDDR6X
Memory16384
Cores1010 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

amd
Brand2GB GDDR5
Memory1280
Cores179.2 GB/s
BandwidthAMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce RTX 4090
$1599 • Sep 2022
Radeon R9 270X
$199 • Oct 2013
AMD Radeon R9 270X

Specs Comparison
Specification | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | AMD Radeon R9 270X |
---|---|---|
Memory Size | 24 GB | 2 GB |
Memory Type | GDDR6X | GDDR5 |
TDP | 450 W | 180 W |
Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
Boost Clock | 2520 MHz | 1050 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 | 33.6 GPixel/s |
Texture Rate | 1.01 GTexel/s | 179.2 GTexel/s |
FP32 Performance | 82.58 GFLOPS | 2.688 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 | 2x 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 270X


Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
AMD Radeon R9 270X


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 270X


PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
AMD Radeon R9 270X
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 270X
AMD • 2GB GDDR5
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