AMD FireStream 9270 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

AMD FireStream 9270

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9270

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X +241%

4.096 TFLOPS

FireStream 9270

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Oct 2013

FireStream

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

32

-

800

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Tahiti

RV770 XT

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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