AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs AMD FirePro RG220A

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AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP AMD FirePro RG220A

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

944 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro RG220A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 1024SP +2267%

1.894 TFLOPS

FirePro RG220A

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

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FirePro RG220A

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

May 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro Remote

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

1

1024

Shading Units

80

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

M93

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

35W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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