NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 270

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, 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.

NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 270

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 66% higher boost clock speed: 1537 MHz vs 925 MHz
1329.3x more texture fill rate: 98.37 GTexel/s vs 74 GTexel / s
Around 60% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1280
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Launch date	22 Mar 2022 vs 13 November 2013
Boost clock speed	1537 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate	98.37 GTexel/s vs 74 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270

Around 79% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 74175 vs 41537

Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	74175 vs 41537

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

41537

74175

Name	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 270
Geekbench - OpenCL	41537	74175
PassMark - G3D Mark		4306
PassMark - G2D Mark		567
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3347
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3347
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1603

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 270
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 1.0
Code name	GA107S	Curacao
Launch date	22 Mar 2022	13 November 2013
Place in performance rating	522	520
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$179
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1537 MHz	925 MHz
Core clock speed	832 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	98.37 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.296 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	6.296 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	1280
Pixel fill rate	73.78 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	98.37 GTexel/s	74 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance		2,368 gflops
Stream Processors		1280
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		150 Watt
Transistor count		2,800 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1 x 6-pin
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Length		210 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)