GeForce GTX 780M vs Radeon R9 M270X
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780M |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 M270X |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GeForce GTX 780M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 780M | | Radeon R9 M270X | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK104 (N14E-GTX-A2) | vs | Venus (Venus XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 294 mm² | vs | 123 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,540 million | vs | 1,500 million |
| Shaders | 1536 | vs | 640 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 771 MHz | vs | 725 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 128 | vs | 40 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 780M | | Radeon R9 M270X | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | vs | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 780M | | Radeon R9 M270X | |
|---|
| TDP | 122 watts | vs | 0 watts |
| Release Date | 11 May 2013 | vs | 21 Mar 2014 |
GeForce GTX 780M
24.67 GP/s
Radeon R9 M270X
12.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 780M
98.70 GT/s
Radeon R9 M270X
31.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 780M
160.00 GB/s
Radeon R9 M270X
64.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 780M
2368.50 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 M270X
992.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better