Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs Radeon VII
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 16GB VRAM Radeon VII to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 295W)
Radeon VII 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 89% (1750MHz vs 925MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 270 1024SP
1894
Radeon VII
+609%
13440
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Feb 2019
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Vega II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Base Clock
1400 MHz
925 MHz
Boost Clock
1750 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
1020GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
60
1024
Shading Units
3840
64
TMUs
240
32
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
112.0 GPixel/s
59.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
420.0 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
26.88 TFLOPS
1.894 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.44 TFLOPS
118.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.360 TFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
295W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
Vega 20
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
Vega 20 XT
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 5.1
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
13.23 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
331 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
