AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

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AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 1024SP +2004%

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

0.09 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jul 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G96C

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

G96-300-C1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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