GeForce GT 630 vs Radeon R9 270

GeForce GT 630
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 15 May 2012
GeForce GT 630
Radeon R9 270
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Nov 2013
Radeon R9 270

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 630
    100%
  • Radeon R9 270
    698%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 630

85 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
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 270

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 598% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 270

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 270

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 630Radeon R9 270
GPU NameGF108 (GF108-400-A1)vsCuracao (Curacao PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders96vs1280
Compute Units2vs20
Core clock810 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs16vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 630Radeon R9 270
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 630Radeon R9 270
TDP65 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date15 May 2012vs13 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 630
    3.24 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 270
    28.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 630
    13.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 270
    72.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 630
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 270
    179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 630
    311.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 270
    2304.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 630
    1120
  • Radeon R9 270
    7820

Points (higher is better)