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AMD Radeon R9 270
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See full details Radeon R9 270 vs GeForce GTX 660 |
Released November, 2013
AMD Radeon R9 270
- 900 MHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
7.2 Out of 10
by techPowerUp!GPU overclocking potential is quite good, even with the ASUS card being overclocked out of the box already.
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Released September, 2012
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
- 980 MHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
7.1 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)Its clocks are essentially those of NVIDIA's reference design with a tiny 13 MHz bump.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of R9 270 vs 660
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| crysis: warhead (2013), Crysis: Warhead (2012), Batman: Arkham City and 6 more | |
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Synthetic tests to measure overall performance | |
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Compute Performance | |
General computing tests executed on the GPU | |
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How loud and hot does the card run idle and under load | |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Higher pixel rate | 28.8 GPixel/s | vs | 19.6 GPixel/s | More than 45% higher pixel rate | |||
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| Higher memory bandwidth | 179.2 GB/s | vs | 144.2 GB/s | Around 25% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Slightly better floating-point performance | 2,304 GFLOPS | vs | 1,882 GFLOPS | More than 20% better floating-point performance | |||
| More render output processors | 32 | vs | 24 | 8 more render output processors | |||
| More shading units | 1,280 | vs | 960 | 320 more shading units | |||
| Wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 192 bit | Around 35% wider memory bus | |||
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| Higher clock speed | 980 MHz | vs | 900 MHz | Around 10% higher clock speed | |||
| Higher turbo clock speed | 1,032 MHz | vs | 925 MHz | More than 10% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,502 MHz | vs | 1,400 MHz | More than 5% higher memory clock speed | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon R9 270 vs GeForce GTX 660
Passmark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performance
Passmark Direct Compute Measures performance of general-purpose computing using Microsoft DirectCompute
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