AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 610

Compare AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 610, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 987.00
$ 98.02
$ 888.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

807 points
2782% significantly better overall score
28 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22331 points
1818% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
1164 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22701 points
1673% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
1280 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
300% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

2 GB/s
14.37 GB/s
618% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W
29 W
417% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigapixels/s
1727% significantly higher pixel rate
1.62 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

74 Gigatexels/s
1041% significantly higher texture rate
6.48 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280
2566% significantly more shading units
48

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

80
900% significantly more texture mapping units
8

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
700% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

280th of 586
559th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2012 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon R9 270 vs GeForce GT 610 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R9 270 beats the GeForce GT 610 in gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GT 610 has a significantly lower TDP at 29 W when compared to the Radeon R9 270 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R9 270 over the GeForce GT 610.

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