AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 270X and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OEM 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, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 month(s) later
  • Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 888 MHz
  • Around 11% higher pipelines: 1280 vs 1152
  • Around 31% better floating-point performance: 2,688 gflops vs 2,046 gflops
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1536 MB
  • Around 33% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1772 vs 1333
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 October 2013 vs 27 June 2013
Boost clock speed 1050 MHz vs 888 MHz
Pipelines 1280 vs 1152
Floating-point performance 2,688 gflops vs 2,046 gflops
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1536 MB
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1772 vs 1333

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OEM

  • Around 1% higher texture fill rate: 85.25 GTexel / s vs 84 GTexel / s
  • Around 38% lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 180 Watt
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 85.25 GTexel / s vs 84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt vs 180 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3713 vs 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353 vs 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3713 vs 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353 vs 3350

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 270X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OEM

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3706
3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3350
3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3706
3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3350
3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
1772
1333
Name AMD Radeon R9 270X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OEM
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 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3706 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350 3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1772 1333
Geekbench - OpenCL 11782

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 270X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OEM

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Kepler
Code name Curacao GK104
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date 8 October 2013 27 June 2013
Launch price (MSRP) $199
Place in performance rating 440 854
Price now $399
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 16.05

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1050 MHz 888 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,688 gflops 2,046 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1280 1152
Stream Processors 1280
Texture fill rate 84 GTexel / s 85.25 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 180 Watt 130 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 3,540 million
Core clock speed 823 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2 x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Length 241 mm

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1536 MB
Memory bandwidth 179.2 GB/s 134.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 192 Bit
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0
Memory clock speed 5600 MHz

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)