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Side-by-side comparison of specifications and performance

Performance Comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

582%
582%

AMD Radeon R9 270X

21%
21%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 is approximately 561% faster

Technical Specifications

SpecificationNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060AMD Radeon R9 270X
Graphics ProcessorDifferent
AD107
Curacao
CoresDifferent
3072
1280
TMUsDifferent
96
80
ROPsDifferent
48
32
Memory SizeDifferent
8 GB
2 GB
Memory TypeDifferent
GDDR6
GDDR5
Bus WidthDifferent
128 bit
256 bit

Graphics Processor

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060AMD Radeon R9 270X
GPU NameDifferent
AD107
Curacao
GPU VariantDifferent
AD107-400-A1
Curacao XT(215-0848004)
ArchitectureDifferent
Ada Lovelace
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process SizeDifferent
5 nm
28 nm
TransistorsDifferent
18,900 million
2,800 million
DensityDifferent
118.9M / mm²
13.2M / mm²
Die SizeDifferent
159 mm²
212 mm²
Chip PackageDifferent
N/A
FCBGA-1737

Graphics Card

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060AMD Radeon R9 270X
Release DateDifferent
May 18th, 2023
Oct 8th, 2013
AvailabilityDifferent
Jun 29th, 2023
N/A
GenerationDifferent
GeForce 40
Volcanic Islands(R9 200)
PredecessorDifferent
GeForce 30
Sea Islands
SuccessorDifferent
GeForce 50
Pirate Islands
ProductionDifferent
Active
End-of-life
Launch PriceDifferent
299 USD
199 USD
Current PriceDifferent
Amazon/Newegg
N/A
Bus InterfaceDifferent
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
ReviewsDifferent
45 in our database
90 in our database

Clock Speeds

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060AMD Radeon R9 270X
Base ClockDifferent
1830 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost ClockDifferent
2460 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory ClockDifferent
2125 MHz17 Gbps effective
1400 MHz5.6 Gbps effective

Memory

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060AMD Radeon R9 270X
Memory SizeDifferent
8 GB
2 GB
Memory TypeDifferent
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory BusDifferent
128 bit
256 bit
BandwidthDifferent
272.0 GB/s
179.2 GB/s

Render Config

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060AMD Radeon R9 270X
Shading UnitsDifferent
3072
1280
TMUsDifferent
96
80
ROPsDifferent
48
32
SM CountDifferent
24
N/A
Tensor CoresDifferent
96
N/A
RT CoresDifferent
24
N/A
L1 CacheDifferent
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 CacheDifferent
24 MB
512 KB
Compute UnitsDifferent
N/A
20

Theoretical Performance

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060AMD Radeon R9 270X
Pixel RateDifferent
118.1 GPixel/s
33.60 GPixel/s
Texture RateDifferent
236.2 GTexel/s
84.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)Different
15.11 TFLOPS (1:1)
N/A
FP32 (float)Different
15.11 TFLOPS
2.688 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)Different
236.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
168.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

Board Design

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060AMD Radeon R9 270X
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
LengthDifferent
240 mm9.4 inches
241 mm9.5 inches
HeightDifferent
111 mm4.4 inches
109 mm4.3 inches
WidthDifferent
40 mm1.6 inches
36 mm1.4 inches
TDPDifferent
115 W
180 W
Suggested PSUDifferent
300 W
450 W
OutputsDifferent
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power ConnectorsDifferent
1x 12-pin
2x 6-pin
Board NumberDifferent
PG173 SKU 371
C631, 109-C63257-00A_02, 109-C63257-12_02

Graphics Features

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060AMD Radeon R9 270X
DirectXDifferent
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCLDifferent
3.0
2.1 (1.2)
VulkanDifferent
1.3
1.2.170
CUDADifferent
8.9
N/A
Shader ModelDifferent
6.8
6.5 (5.1)

Comparison Summary

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