Radeon R9 270 and GeForce GTX 470 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 270 vs GeForce GTX 470
Radeon R9 270
4435
GeForce GTX 470
3199
Radeon R9 270
GeForce GTX 470
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Curacao
GF100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
April 2010
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
Two 6-pins
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
607 MHz
CUDA cores
-
448
Floating-point performance
2,368 gflops
1,088.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
3,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
448
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
225 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
74.00
34.0 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1280 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
320 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
Memory bandwidth
179.2 GB/s
133.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-