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Radeon R9 270X and GeForce GTX 850M - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 270X vs GeForce GTX 850M

Radeon R9 270X
5036
GeForce GTX 850M
2591

Radeon R9 270X

GeForce GTX 850M


Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name
Curacao XT
N15P-GT

Market segment
Desktop
Laptop

Release date
October 2013
March 2014

Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
2 x 6-pin
-

SLI options
-
+

Boost clock speed
1050 MHz
-

Core clock speed
-
Up to 936 MHz

CUDA cores
-
640

Floating-point performance
2,688 gflops
1,155 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)
180 Watt
45 Watt

Texture fill rate
84.00
36.08

Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit

Memory clock speed
-
Up to 2500 MHz

Memory bandwidth
179.2 GB/s
80.0 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Standard memory configuration
-
DDR3 or GDDR5

Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs

eDP 1.2 signal support
-
Up to 3840x2160

LVDS signal support
-
Up to 1920x1200

Eyefinity
+
-

VGA аnalog display support
-
Up to 2048x1536

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
Up to 3840x2160

HDCP content protection
-
+

HDMI
+
+

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
-
+

DisplayPort support
+
-

DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)

CUDA
-
+

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
1.2
1.1

OpenGL
4.6
4.5

Shader Model
5.1
5.1

Vulkan
+
1.1.126

Ansel
-
+

AppAcceleration
+
-

CrossFire
1
-

DDMA audio
+
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+

HD3D
+
-

LiquidVR
1
-

Optimus
-
+

PowerTune
-
-

TressFX
1
-

TrueAudio
+
-

TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
-
+

UVD
+
-

ZeroCore
-
-