AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Compare AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Price

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$ 987.00

$ 134.75

$ 852.25 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

807 points

1252 points

55% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

27 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

19 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS

Identical

17 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

15 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1610 points

2302 points

42% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22331 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

18372 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22701 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

20001 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

800 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

8 GiB

300% 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

120 W

25% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigapixels/s

49.47 Gigapixels/s

67% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

74 Gigatexels/s

80.39 Gigatexels/s

8% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.37 TFLOPS

2.57 TFLOPS

8% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

1664

30% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

30% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

279th of 586

247th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.4

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon R9 270 vs Quadro M4000 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Quadro M4000 beats the Radeon R9 270 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon R9 270 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro M4000 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Quadro M4000 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro M4000 over the Radeon R9 270.