AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 270X and NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 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 9800 GTX

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270X

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 94% higher texture fill rate: 84 GTexel / s vs 43.2 billion / sec
10x more pipelines: 1280 vs 128
6.2x better floating-point performance: 2,688 gflops vs 432.1 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
6.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4869 vs 769
Around 67% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 613 vs 366

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 October 2013 vs 28 March 2008
Texture fill rate	84 GTexel / s vs 43.2 billion / sec
Pipelines	1280 vs 128
Floating-point performance	2,688 gflops vs 432.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4869 vs 769
PassMark - G2D Mark	613 vs 366

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Around 29% lower typical power consumption: 140 Watt vs 180 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	140 Watt vs 180 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 270X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4869

769

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

613

366

Name	AMD Radeon R9 270X	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark	4869	769
PassMark - G2D Mark	613	366
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 9800 GTX
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Curacao	G92
Design	AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date	8 October 2013	28 March 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$199	$299
Place in performance rating	440	438
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	432.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	1280	128
Stream Processors	1280
Texture fill rate	84 GTexel / s	43.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	180 Watt	140 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	754 million
Core clock speed		1688 MHz
CUDA cores		128
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video, HDTVDual Link DVI
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	2 x 6-pin	2x 6-pin
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length		10.5" (26.7 cm)
SLI options		2-way3-way
API support
DirectX	12	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB/s	70.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Memory clock speed		1100 MHz
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI