GeForce GT 610 OEM vs Radeon R9 270X

GeForce GT 610 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Sep 2012
GeForce GT 610 OEM
Radeon R9 270X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R9 270X
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 610 OEM
    100%
  • Radeon R9 270X
    1611%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 610 OEM

151 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 270X .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 270X

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 1511% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 270X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 270X

The Radeon R9 270X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 610 OEMRadeon R9 270X
GPU NameGF119 (GF119 B1)vsCuracao (Curacao XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size79 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders48vs1280
Compute Units2vs20
Core clock550 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs8vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 610 OEMRadeon R9 270X
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 610 OEMRadeon R9 270X
TDP29 wattsvs180 watts
Release Date9 Sep 2012vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 610 OEM
    2.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 270X
    32.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 610 OEM
    4.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 270X
    80.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 610 OEM
    8.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 270X
    179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 610 OEM
    115.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 270X
    2560.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 610 OEM
    540
  • Radeon R9 270X
    8700

Points (higher is better)