Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs AMD Radeon R9 270

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2014 Nov 2013
Generation GeForce 800M Volcanic Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 941 MHz 900 MHz
Boost Clock 967 MHz 925 MHz
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 192bit 256bit
Bandwidth 120.0GB/s 179.2GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 1344 1280
TMUs 112 80
ROPs 24 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per SMX) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 384 KB 512 KB
Compute Units 20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 27.08 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 108.3 GTexel/s 74.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.599 TFLOPS 2.368 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 108.3 GFLOPS 148.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GK104 Curacao
GPU Variant N15E-GT-A2 Curacao PRO(215-0848000)
Architecture Kepler GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3.54 billion 2.8 billion
Die Size 294 mm² 212 mm²
Board Design
TDP 100W 150W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors None 1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU 450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.1 1.2
CUDA 3.0
Shader Model 5.1 5.1