Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2013 May 2013
Generation Volcanic Islands GeForce 700
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 900 MHz 863 MHz
Boost Clock 925 MHz 902 MHz
Memory Clock 1400 MHz 1502 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 384bit
Bandwidth 179.2GB/s 288.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20
Shading Units 1280 2304
TMUs 80 192
ROPs 32 48
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache 512 KB 1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 29.60 GPixel/s 43.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 74.00 GTexel/s 173.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.368 TFLOPS 4.156 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 148.0 GFLOPS 173.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Curacao GK110
GPU Variant Curacao PRO(215-0848000) GK110-300-A1
Architecture GCN 1.0 Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 7.08 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 561 mm²
Board Design
TDP 150W 250W
Suggested PSU 450 W 600 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2.175
Shader Model 5.1 6.5 (5.1)
CUDA 3.5