AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 270 and NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • 31.4x more texture fill rate: 74 GTexel / s vs 2.356 GTexel / s
  • 160x more pipelines: 1280 vs 8
  • 105.6x better floating-point performance: 2,368 gflops vs 22.432 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
  • 34.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4306 vs 126
  • Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 567 vs 309
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 November 2013 vs 26 November 2009
Texture fill rate 74 GTexel / s vs 2.356 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1280 vs 8
Floating-point performance 2,368 gflops vs 22.432 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4306 vs 126
PassMark - G2D Mark 567 vs 309

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

  • 4.8x lower typical power consumption: 31 Watt vs 150 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 31 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 270
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4306
126
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
567
309
Name AMD Radeon R9 270 NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 4306 126
PassMark - G2D Mark 567 309
Geekbench - OpenCL 74175
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 55.721
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1282.039
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.927
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 93.116
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 261.843
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3347
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3347
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1603

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 270 NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Tesla 2.0
Code name Curacao GT218
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date 13 November 2013 26 November 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $179
Place in performance rating 521 522
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 925 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,368 gflops 22.432 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 1280 8
Stream Processors 1280
Texture fill rate 74 GTexel / s 2.356 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 31 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 260 million
Core clock speed 589 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 210 mm 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12 10.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 179.2 GB/s 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64 Bit
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2
Memory clock speed 800 MHz

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)