NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A vs AMD Radeon R9 270
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A 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 GeForce GTX 850A
- Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
- Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 936 MHz vs 925 MHz
- 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 150 Watt
- Around 12% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3857 vs 3448
- Around 12% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3857 vs 3448
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Launch date | 17 March 2014 vs 13 November 2013 |
| Boost clock speed | 936 MHz vs 925 MHz |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 45 Watt vs 150 Watt |
| Benchmarks | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 3857 vs 3448 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 3857 vs 3448 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3351 vs 3347 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3351 vs 3347 |
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270
- Around 98% higher texture fill rate: 74 GTexel / s vs 37.44 GTexel / s
- 2x more pipelines: 1280 vs 640
- Around 98% better floating-point performance: 2,368 gflops vs 1,198 gflops
- 4.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4306 vs 1050
- Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 567 vs 551
- Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3699 vs 2957
- Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3699 vs 2957
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Texture fill rate | 74 GTexel / s vs 37.44 GTexel / s |
| Pipelines | 1280 vs 640 |
| Floating-point performance | 2,368 gflops vs 1,198 gflops |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 4306 vs 1050 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 567 vs 551 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3699 vs 2957 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3699 vs 2957 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270
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| Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A | AMD Radeon R9 270 |
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| PassMark - G3D Mark | 1050 | 4306 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 551 | 567 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 3857 | 3448 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 3857 | 3448 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 2957 | 3699 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 2957 | 3699 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3351 | 3347 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3351 | 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 GeForce GTX 850A | AMD Radeon R9 270 | |
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| Architecture | Maxwell | GCN 1.0 |
| Code name | GM107 | Curacao |
| Launch date | 17 March 2014 | 13 November 2013 |
| Place in performance rating | 507 | 509 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Design | AMD Radeon R9 200 Series | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $179 | |
Technical info |
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| Boost clock speed | 936 MHz | 925 MHz |
| Core clock speed | 902 MHz | |
| Floating-point performance | 1,198 gflops | 2,368 gflops |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Pipelines | 640 | 1280 |
| Texture fill rate | 37.44 GTexel / s | 74 GTexel / s |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 45 Watt | 150 Watt |
| Transistor count | 1,870 million | 2,800 million |
| Stream Processors | 1280 | |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Display Connectors | No outputs | 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort |
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Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Bus support | PCIe 3.0 | |
| Length | 210 mm | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1 x 6-pin | |
API support |
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| DirectX | 12.0 (11_0) | 12 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.5 |
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Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | 2 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 28.8 GB / s | 179.2 GB/s |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 256 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz | |
| Memory type | DDR3 | GDDR5 |
Technologies |
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| CrossFire | ||
| DDMA audio | ||
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