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General information Radeon R9 270X GeForce GTX 580
Launched Q4 2013 Q3 2012
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD NVIDIA
Motherboard Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Memory 4096 MB 0 % 3072 MB 25 %
Core Clock 1000 MHz 0 % 772 MHz 22.8 %
Effective Clock 6000 MHz 0 % 4212 MHz 29.8 %
DirectX DirectX 12 DirectX 11
OpenGL OpenGL 4.4 OpenGL 4.5
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 180 W 26.2 % 244 W 0 %
Length 308 mm 6.7 % 330 mm 0 %
Cooling Fans 3 0 % 3 0 %
Case Slots 2 33.3 % 3 0 %
Performance Radeon R9 270X GeForce GTX 580
Overall Score 35530 0 % 34322 3.4 %
Future Proof 30 % 0 % 21 % 30 %
Benchmark Score 12624 0 % 11780 6.7 %
2D Benchmark Score 607.9 0 % 472.7 22.3 %
Average DirectX performance 39.7 FPS 3.3 % 41.1 FPS 0 %
DirectX 9 performance 84.3 FPS 3.5 % 87.4 FPS 0 %
DirectX 10 performance 20.2 FPS 8 % 21.9 FPS 0 %
DirectX 11 performance 30.2 FPS 24.3 % 39.8 FPS 0 %
DirectX 12 performance 24.2 FPS 0 % 15.1 FPS 37.6 %
Graphic card computing 2222.8 operations/s 0 % 1472.8 operations/s 33.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Radeon R9 270X, GeForce GTX 580.

Average frames per second Radeon R9 270X GeForce GTX 580
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 75.5 FPS 72.3 FPS
High settings 135.9 FPS 130.1 FPS
Medium settings 163.0 FPS 156.1 FPS
Low settings 228.2 FPS 218.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 4.2 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game Grand Theft Auto V for Radeon R9 270X, GeForce GTX 580.

Grand Theft Auto V Radeon R9 270X GeForce GTX 580
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 59.1 FPS 57.0 FPS
High settings 106.4 FPS 102.7 FPS
Medium settings 127.7 FPS 123.2 FPS
Low settings 178.8 FPS 172.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 3.5 %
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