NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 270

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2086 points

158% significantly better overall score

807 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

51 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

19 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

17 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4894 points

203% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1610 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39907 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

22331 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

22701 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1379 MHz

53% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz

49% significantly higher boost clock speed

925 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

12714% significantly higher memory bandwidth

2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

66% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

88.26 Gigapixels/s

198% significantly higher pixel rate

29.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s

138% significantly higher texture rate

74 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.65 TFLOPS

138% significantly better floating point performance

2.37 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

60% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

203rd of 586

280th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs Radeon R9 270 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q beats the Radeon R9 270 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the Radeon R9 270 at 150 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q over the Radeon R9 270.