Product Compare
AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Mar 2015 | May 2012 |
| Generation | Volcanic Islands | GeForce 600 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 900 MHz | 915 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 925 MHz | 1019 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1200 MHz | 1502 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 153.6GB/s | 192.3GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 16 | |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 1536 |
| TMUs | 64 | 128 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 16 KB (per SMX) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 512 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 29.60 GPixel/s | 32.61 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 59.20 GTexel/s | 130.4 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 1.894 TFLOPS | 3.130 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 118.4 GFLOPS | 130.4 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Pitcairn | GK104 |
| GPU Variant | Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062) | GK104-355-A2 |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Kepler |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 2.8 billion | 3.54 billion |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | 294 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 150W | 300W |
| Suggested PSU | 450 W | 700 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 | 3x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | 2x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 12 (11_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 5.1 |
| CUDA | 3.0 | |