AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Price

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$ 987.00

$ 289.00

$ 698.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

807 points

2058 points

155% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

42 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

33 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS

27 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

29 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22331 points

33958 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22701 points

33375 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

1506 MHz

67% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

925 MHz

1708 MHz

84% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

2 GB/s

192.2 GB/s

9510% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

120 W

25% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigapixels/s

81.98 Gigapixels/s

176% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

74 Gigatexels/s

123 Gigatexels/s

66% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.37 TFLOPS

3.94 TFLOPS

66% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

11% slightly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

11% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

280th of 586

206th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon R9 270 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB beats the Radeon R9 270 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 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 1060 3GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon R9 270 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is faster than the Radeon R9 270.