AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce2 MX PCI

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 270 and NVIDIA GeForce2 MX PCI 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 GeForce2 MX PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 4 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 180 nm
64x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 32 MB

Launch date	13 November 2013 vs 28 June 2000
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 32 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce2 MX PCI

9.5x more texture fill rate: 700 MTexel / s vs 74 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	700 MTexel / s vs 74 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 270
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX PCI

Name	AMD Radeon R9 270	NVIDIA GeForce2 MX PCI
PassMark - G3D Mark	4306
PassMark - G2D Mark	567
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 GeForce2 MX PCI
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Celsius
Code name	Curacao	NV11 A2
Design	AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date	13 November 2013	28 June 2000
Launch price (MSRP)	$179
Place in performance rating	501	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	925 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,368 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	180 nm
Pipelines	1280
Stream Processors	1280
Texture fill rate	74 GTexel / s	700 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	20 million
Core clock speed		175 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 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	PCI
Length	210 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12	7.0
OpenGL	4.5	1.2
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB/s	664 MB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	32 Bit
Memory type	GDDR5	SDR
Memory clock speed		166 MHz
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)