Jetson Nano GPU vs Radeon R9 270 1024SP

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code namePitcairnGM20B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date13 March 2015 (9 years ago)March 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1024128
Core clock speed900 MHz640 MHz
Boost clock speed925 MHz921 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million2,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm20 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt10 Watt
Texture fill rate59.2014.74
Floating-point processing power1.894 TFLOPS0.2358 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs6416

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1200 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1
CUDA-5.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 20 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 10 Watt

Jetson Nano GPU has a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 1400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 270 1024SP and Jetson Nano GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 270 1024SP is a desktop card while Jetson Nano GPU is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP
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