GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 270

GeForce GTX 960 Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP Release date: 22 Jan 2015

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

Summary

Synthetic performance index

GeForce GTX 960
132%
Radeon R9 270
100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

GeForce GTX 960
119%
Radeon R9 270
100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960

19% higher gaming performance.

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.

Supports PhysX

Supports G-Sync

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

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 270

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

These graphics cards seems to have comparable performance based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).

Specifications

Core Configuration

	GeForce GTX 960		Radeon R9 270
GPU Name	GM206 (GM206-300-A1)	vs	Curacao (Curacao PRO)
Fab Process	28 nm	vs	28 nm
Die Size	228 mmÂ²	vs	212 mmÂ²
Transistors	2,940 million	vs	2,800 million
Shaders	1024	vs	1280
Compute Units	8	vs	20
Core clock	1127 MHz	vs	900 MHz
ROPs	32	vs	32
TMUs	64	vs	80

Memory Configuration

	GeForce GTX 960		Radeon R9 270
Memory Type	GDDR5	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	128 bit	vs	256 bit
Memory Speed	1753 MHz 7012 MHz effective	vs	1400 MHz 5600 MHz effective
Memory Size	2048 Mb	vs	2048 Mb

Additional details

	GeForce GTX 960		Radeon R9 270
TDP	120 watts	vs	150 watts
Release Date	22 Jan 2015	vs	13 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

GeForce GTX 960
36.10 GP/s
Radeon R9 270
28.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

GeForce GTX 960
72.10 GT/s
Radeon R9 270
72.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

GeForce GTX 960
112.20 GB/s
Radeon R9 270
179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

GeForce GTX 960
2308.10 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 270
2304.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

GeForce GTX 960
10380
Radeon R9 270
7820

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

GeForce GTX 960
47
Radeon R9 270
32

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

GeForce GTX 960
34
Radeon R9 270
37