GeForce 315 OEM vs Radeon R9 270X

GeForce 315 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Feb 2011
GeForce 315 OEM
Radeon R9 270X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R9 270X

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 315 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 270X

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 315 OEMRadeon R9 270X
GPU NameGT218 (GT218-300-B1)vsCuracao (Curacao XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size57 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors260 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders16vs1280
Compute Units2vs20
Core clock589 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs8vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce 315 OEMRadeon R9 270X
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed600 MHz
1200 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 315 OEMRadeon R9 270X
TDP33 wattsvs180 watts
Release Date22 Feb 2011vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 315 OEM
    2.36 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 270X
    32.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 315 OEM
    4.71 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 270X
    80.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 315 OEM
    9.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 270X
    179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 315 OEM
    44.86 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 270X
    2560.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better