GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon R9 270
Summary
GeForce GTX 650
100%
Radeon R9 270
271%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650 |
| 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 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
| Around 171% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R9 270
The Radeon R9 270 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 650 | | Radeon R9 270 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK106 () | vs | Curacao (Curacao PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 221 mm² | vs | 212 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,540 million | vs | 2,800 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 1280 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 20 |
| Core clock | 1058 MHz | vs | 900 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 650 | | Radeon R9 270 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | vs | 1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 650 | | Radeon R9 270 | |
|---|
| TDP | 65 watts | vs | 150 watts |
| Release Date | 27 Nov 2013 | vs | 13 Nov 2013 |
GeForce GTX 650
8.46 GP/s
Radeon R9 270
28.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 650
33.90 GT/s
Radeon R9 270
72.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 650
80.00 GB/s
Radeon R9 270
179.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 650
812.50 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 270
2304.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 650
2880
Radeon R9 270
7820
Points (higher is better)