AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop, 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 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

807 points

4302 points

433% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

104 FPS

85 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

53 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS

76 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

41 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22701 points

75551 points

232% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

1455 MHz

61% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

925 MHz

1755 MHz

89% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

166% significantly larger memory bus width

96 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

2 GB/s

192 GB/s

9499% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

50 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigapixels/s

56.16 Gigapixels/s

89% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

74 Gigatexels/s

140.4 Gigatexels/s

89% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.37 TFLOPS

8.99 TFLOPS

279% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

2560

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

280th of 586

118th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 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 4050 Laptop benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 270 in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop 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 RTX 4050 Laptop also 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop over the Radeon R9 270.