AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 270X and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640 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, 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 270X

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270X

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 10 month(s) later
6.8x more texture fill rate: 84 GTexel / s vs 12.31 GTexel / s
13.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 96
11.8x better floating-point performance: 2,688 gflops vs 228.1 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
3.2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 640 MB

Launch date	8 October 2013 vs 8 November 2006
Texture fill rate	84 GTexel / s vs 12.31 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 96
Floating-point performance	2,688 gflops vs 228.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 640 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640

Around 26% lower typical power consumption: 143 Watt vs 180 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	143 Watt vs 180 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 270X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640

Name	AMD Radeon R9 270X	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640
PassMark - G3D Mark	4869
PassMark - G2D Mark	613
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	63.87
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1314.72
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	6.354
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	85.21
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	315.412
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1772

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 270X	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Curacao	G80
Design	AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date	8 October 2013	8 November 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$199	$449
Place in performance rating	440	not rated
Price now	$399
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	16.05
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1050 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,688 gflops	228.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1280	96
Stream Processors	1280
Texture fill rate	84 GTexel / s	12.31 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	180 Watt	143 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	681 million
Core clock speed		513 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	2 x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
Length		267 mm
API support
DirectX	12	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	640 MB
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB/s	63.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	320 Bit
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Memory clock speed		1584 MHz
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)