AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R9 270

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

807 points

4534 points

461% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

112 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

57 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS

78 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

44 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22331 points

92420 points

313% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22701 points

84300 points

271% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

Identical

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

925 MHz

1703 MHz

84% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

5.97 GiB

198% significantly more memory

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

336 GB/s

16699% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

80 W

87% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigapixels/s

68.4 Gigapixels/s

131% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

74 Gigatexels/s

171 Gigatexels/s

131% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.37 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

361% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

3840

200% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

49% significantly 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

283rd of 595

110th of 595

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon R9 270 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop beats the Radeon R9 270 in gaming performance.

By comparing the spec sheets, both the Radeon R9 270 and the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop have the same base clock speed. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has significantly more memory with 5.97 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 GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon R9 270 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is faster than the Radeon R9 270.