NVIDIA GRID M60-1Q vs AMD Radeon R9 270

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID M60-1Q and AMD Radeon R9 270 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, 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), Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID M60-1Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 28% higher boost clock speed: 1180 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • 2x more texture fill rate: 151.0 GTexel / s vs 74 GTexel / s
  • Around 60% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1280
  • 2x better floating-point performance: 4,833 gflops vs 2,368 gflops
  • Around 94% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 6674 vs 3448
  • Around 94% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 6674 vs 3448
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 30 August 2015 vs 13 November 2013
Boost clock speed 1180 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate 151.0 GTexel / s vs 74 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 1280
Floating-point performance 4,833 gflops vs 2,368 gflops
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6674 vs 3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6674 vs 3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3714 vs 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3714 vs 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 vs 3347
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 vs 3347

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270

  • Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 225 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4306 vs 3695
  • 3.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 567 vs 181
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 225 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4306 vs 3695
PassMark - G2D Mark 567 vs 181

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID M60-1Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3695
4306
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
181
567
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6674
3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6674
3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3714
3699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3714
3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
3347
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
3347
Name NVIDIA GRID M60-1Q AMD Radeon R9 270
PassMark - G3D Mark 3695 4306
PassMark - G2D Mark 181 567
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6674 3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6674 3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3714 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3714 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 3347
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 3347
Geekbench - OpenCL 74175
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 55.721
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1282.039
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.927
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 93.116
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 261.843
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1603

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GRID M60-1Q AMD Radeon R9 270

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 GCN 1.0
Code name GM204 Curacao
Launch date 30 August 2015 13 November 2013
Place in performance rating 513 515
Type Workstation Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $179

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1180 MHz 925 MHz
Core clock speed 930 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,833 gflops 2,368 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2048 1280
Texture fill rate 151.0 GTexel / s 74 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 2,800 million
Stream Processors 1280

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm 210 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 1 x 6-pin
Bus support PCIe 3.0

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 160.4 GB / s 179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

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