GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon R9 270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1076MHz vs 925MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Radeon R9 270 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+155%
6060
Radeon R9 270
2368
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+261%
5789
Radeon R9 270
1603
Graphics Card
Jun 2015
Release Date
Nov 2013
GeForce 900
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
900 MHz
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
2816
Shading Units
1280
176
TMUs
80
96
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
150W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
Curacao
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO
(215-0848000)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.1