NVIDIA CMP 40HX vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA CMP 40HX and AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA CMP 40HX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 63% higher core clock speed: 1470 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • Around 78% higher boost clock speed: 1650 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • 4013.5x more texture fill rate: 237.6 GTexel/s vs 59.2 GTexel / s
  • 2.3x more pipelines: 2304 vs 1024
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
  • Around 36% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 95902 vs 70535
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 25 Feb 2021 vs 13 March 2015
Core clock speed 1470 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed 1650 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate 237.6 GTexel/s vs 59.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2304 vs 1024
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 95902 vs 70535

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

  • Around 23% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 185 Watt
  • 2.7x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 185 Watt
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA CMP 40HX
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
95902
70535
Name NVIDIA CMP 40HX AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP
Geekbench - OpenCL 95902 70535
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6316
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6316
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8390
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8390
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 27566
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 27566

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA CMP 40HX AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 1.0
Code name TU106 Pitcairn
Launch date 25 Feb 2021 13 March 2015
Place in performance rating 173 171
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1650 MHz 925 MHz
Core clock speed 1470 MHz 900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2304 1024
Pixel fill rate 105.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 237.6 GTexel/s 59.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 10800 million 2,800 million
Floating-point performance 1,894 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Height 35 mm, 1.4 inches
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 229 mm, 9 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin
Width 111 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 448.0 GB/s 153.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 4800 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5