AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 270 and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE 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.

AMD Radeon R9 270

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
53.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 24
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
41.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4306 vs 104
Around 77% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 567 vs 320

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 November 2013 vs 9 January 2008
Pipelines	1280 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4306 vs 104
PassMark - G2D Mark	567 vs 320

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

6x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 150 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 270
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4306

104

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

567

320

Name	AMD Radeon R9 270	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
PassMark - G3D Mark	4306	104
PassMark - G2D Mark	567	320
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 9500M GE
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0
Code name	Curacao	MCP79Mx + NB9M
Design	AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date	13 November 2013	9 January 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$179
Place in performance rating	509	504
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	925 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,368 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	1280	24
Stream Processors	1280
Texture fill rate	74 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	210 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12	10.0
OpenGL	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		1
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)