ATI Radeon HD 5690 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5690

AMD Radeon R9 270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5690 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 5690 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

880 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5690

0.62 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 +281%

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5690

VS

Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Nov 2013

Evergreen

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

20

-

400

Shading Units

1280

20

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

15.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

620.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

64W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

Curacao

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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