AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

Compare AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 4 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

807 points

1029 points

27% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

23 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

14 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

12 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1610 points

1673 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22331 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

13578 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22701 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

14136 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

980 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

925 MHz

1032 MHz

11% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

2 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

9515% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

13% slightly lower TDP

170 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigapixels/s

19% slightly higher pixel rate

24.77 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

74 Gigatexels/s

99.07 Gigatexels/s

33% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.37 TFLOPS

2.38 TFLOPS

0.42% slightly 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

20% 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

280th of 586

262nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon R9 270 vs GeForce GTX 760 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 760 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 270 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 760 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 760 also has a slightly 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 760 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon R9 270 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 760 at 170 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 760 is better than the Radeon R9 270.