GeForce GT 530 OEM vs Radeon R9 270X

GeForce GT 530 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2011
GeForce GT 530 OEM
Radeon R9 270X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R9 270X

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 530 OEM

130 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 530 OEMRadeon R9 270X
GPU NameGF108 (GF108-200-A1)vsCuracao (Curacao XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders96vs1280
Compute Units2vs20
Core clock700 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs16vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 530 OEMRadeon R9 270X
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 530 OEMRadeon R9 270X
TDP50 wattsvs180 watts
Release Date14 May 2011vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 530 OEM
    2.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 270X
    32.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 530 OEM
    11.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 270X
    80.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 530 OEM
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 270X
    179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 530 OEM
    268.80 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 270X
    2560.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better