AMD Radeon R9 M270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Saturn GT200B
GPU variant Saturn PRO G200-103-B2
Architecture GCN 2.0 Tesla 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 2,080 million 1,400 million
Die size 160 mm² 470 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Feb 5th, 2015
Generation Crystal System (R9 M200)
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Predecessor Solar System
Successor Mobility Radeon

Clocks

Base clock 900 MHz
Boost clock 1000 MHz
Memory clock 1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective 999 MHz 1998 Mbps effective
GPU clock 576 MHz
Shader clock 1242 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 2 GB 896 MB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 448 bit
Bandwidth 88.00 GB/s 111.9 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 768 216
TMUs 48 72
ROPs 16 28
Compute units 12
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 256 KB 224 KB
SM count 27

Performance

Pixel rate 16.00 GPixel/s 16.13 GPixel/s
Texture rate 48.00 GTexel/s 41.47 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 1.536 TFLOPS 536.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 96.00 GFLOPS (1:16) 67.07 GFLOPS (1:8)

Dimensions & Outputs

TDP unknown 171 W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video
Slot width Dual-slot
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches
Suggested PSU 450 W
Power connectors 2x 6-pin
Board number P897

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 4.6 3.3
OpenCL 2.0 1.1
Vulkan 1.2
Shader model 6.3 4.0
CUDA 1.3

Other Features

Graphics Card

Release date Nov 27th, 2008
Generation GeForce 200
Production End-of-life
Launch price 299 USD
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 137 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 9
Successor GeForce 400

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