AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 270X and NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i 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 9300 + nForce 730i

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270X

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
37.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4874 vs 129
Around 67% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 612 vs 367

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 October 2013 vs 17 April 2007
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4874 vs 129
PassMark - G2D Mark	612 vs 367

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

4.5x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 180 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 180 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 270X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4874

129

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

612

367

Name	AMD Radeon R9 270X	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
PassMark - G3D Mark	4874	129
PassMark - G2D Mark	612	367
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 9300 + nForce 730i
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Curacao	MCP79MX
Design	AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date	8 October 2013	17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$199
Place in performance rating	442	441
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
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1280
Stream Processors	1280
Texture fill rate	84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	180 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	210 million
Core clock speed		450 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 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	PCI
Supplementary power connectors	2 x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)