Radeon R9 270 and GeForce GTX 960A - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 270 vs GeForce GTX 960A
Radeon R9 270
4435
GeForce GTX 960A
3167
Radeon R9 270
GeForce GTX 960A
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Curacao
GM107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
March 2015
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
1085 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1029 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,368 gflops
1,389 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
640
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
74.00
43.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
5012 MHz
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 (11_0)
CUDA
-
5.0
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-