AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 270 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M 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 Quadro FX 3500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 61% higher boost clock speed: 925 MHz vs 575 MHz
5.4x more texture fill rate: 74 GTexel / s vs 13.8 GTexel / s
53.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 24
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
14.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4306 vs 306
Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 567 vs 309

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 November 2013 vs 1 March 2007
Boost clock speed	925 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate	74 GTexel / s vs 13.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4306 vs 306
PassMark - G2D Mark	567 vs 309

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

3.3x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 150 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 270
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4306

306

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

567

309

Name	AMD Radeon R9 270	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M
PassMark - G3D Mark	4306	306
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 Quadro FX 3500M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Curie
Code name	Curacao	G71
Design	AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date	13 November 2013	1 March 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$179	$99.99
Place in performance rating	509	511
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Price now		$99.99
Value for money (0-100)		3.97
Technical info
Boost clock speed	925 MHz	575 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,368 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1280	24
Stream Processors	1280
Texture fill rate	74 GTexel / s	13.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	278 million
Core clock speed		575 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-III
Length	210 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB/s	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	700 Bit
Memory type	GDDR5	256
Memory clock speed		1200 MHz
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)