GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8 vs Radeon R9 270

GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8 Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP Release date: 29 May 2013

Radeon R9 270 Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP Release date: 13 Nov 2013

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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8

125 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 270 .

Supports PhysX

Supports G-Sync

Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 270

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 270

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 270

Based on theoretical specifications.

Specifications

Core Configuration

	GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8		Radeon R9 270
GPU Name	GK208 (GK208-301-A1)	vs	Curacao (Curacao PRO)
Fab Process	28 nm	vs	28 nm
Die Size	87 mmÂ²	vs	212 mmÂ²
Transistors	unknown	vs	2,800 million
Shaders	384	vs	1280
Compute Units	2	vs	20
Core clock	902 MHz	vs	900 MHz
ROPs	8	vs	32
TMUs	16	vs	80

Memory Configuration

	GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8		Radeon R9 270
Memory Type	DDR3	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	64 bit	vs	256 bit
Memory Speed	900 MHz 1800 MHz effective	vs	1400 MHz 5600 MHz effective
Memory Size	2048 Mb	vs	2048 Mb

Additional details

	GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8		Radeon R9 270
TDP	25 watts	vs	150 watts
Release Date	29 May 2013	vs	13 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
7.22 GP/s
Radeon R9 270
28.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
14.40 GT/s
Radeon R9 270
72.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
14.40 GB/s
Radeon R9 270
179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
692.70 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 270
2304.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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