NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 1095 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • 2.9x more pipelines: 2944 vs 1024
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 4800 MHz
  • Around 13% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 79991 vs 70535
  • 3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 19139 vs 6316
  • Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 8905 vs 8390
  • 3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 19139 vs 6316
  • Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 8905 vs 8390
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 29 January 2019 vs 13 March 2015
Boost clock speed 1095 MHz vs 925 MHz
Pipelines 2944 vs 1024
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Memory clock speed 12000 MHz vs 4800 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 79991 vs 70535
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 19139 vs 6316
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8905 vs 8390
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 19139 vs 6316
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8905 vs 8390

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

  • Around 22% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 735 MHz
  • 3.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 27566 vs 8060
  • 3.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 27566 vs 8060
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 900 MHz vs 735 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 27566 vs 8060
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 27566 vs 8060

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
79991
70535
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
19139
6316
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8905
8390
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8060
27566
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
19139
6316
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8905
8390
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8060
27566
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP
PassMark - G3D Mark 13154
PassMark - G2D Mark 538
Geekbench - OpenCL 79991 70535
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 297.996
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3676.805
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 22.75
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 162.692
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1116.69
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 19139 6316
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8905 8390
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8060 27566
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 19139 6316
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8905 8390
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8060 27566
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7990

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 1.0
Code name TU104B Pitcairn
Launch date 29 January 2019 13 March 2015
Place in performance rating 143 163
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1095 MHz 925 MHz
Core clock speed 735 MHz 900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2944 1024
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 13,600 million 2,800 million
Floating-point performance 1,894 gflops
Texture fill rate 59.2 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 12000 MHz 4800 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 153.6 GB / s