AMD Radeon R7 260 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260

AMD Radeon R9 270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 +54%

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Nov 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

20

-

768

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Curacao

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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