ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs AMD Radeon R9 270

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

AMD Radeon R9 270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 AGP and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

0.428 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 +453%

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

VS

Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Nov 2013

Radeon R600

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

52.99GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

20

-

320

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.69 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

10.69 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

427.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

85.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Curacao

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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