NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 270

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q 4 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

1966 points

143% significantly better overall score

807 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

19 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

15 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

20 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2920 points

81% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1610 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36447 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

22331 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36740 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

22701 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1020 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1125 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

925 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

160 GB/s

7900% significantly higher memory bandwidth

2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W

328% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

36 Gigapixels/s

21% slightly higher pixel rate

29.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

72 Gigatexels/s

74 Gigatexels/s

2% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.30 TFLOPS

2.37 TFLOPS

2% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

1280

25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

211th of 586

279th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs Radeon R9 270 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q beats the Radeon R9 270 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q has a slightly 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 1650 Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 4 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 1650 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 35 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 1650 Max-Q over the Radeon R9 270.