Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs GeForce GTX 950
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1188MHz vs 925MHz)
Lower TDP (90W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 270 1024SP
+3%
1894
GeForce GTX 950
1825
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Aug 2015
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Base Clock
1024 MHz
925 MHz
Boost Clock
1188 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1653 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
105.8GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
1024
Shading Units
768
64
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.02 GPixel/s
59.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
57.02 GTexel/s
1.894 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.825 TFLOPS
118.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.02 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
90W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
GM206
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
GM206-250-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.4