Radeon R9 270 and GeForce GTX 950 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon R9 270
GeForce GTX 950 OEM
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Curacao
GM206S
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
2016
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
1203 MHz
Core clock speed
-
937 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,368 gflops
1,946 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
74.00
76.99
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
179.2 GB/s
80.19 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
5.2
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
+
1.3
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-