AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs ATI Radeon HD 3730

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

ATI Radeon HD 3730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3730 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 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

904 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3730 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 1024SP +994%

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3730

0.173 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

Radeon HD 3730

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Oct 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

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

396 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

3

-

1024

Shading Units

120

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.888 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.776 GTexel/s

-

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

173.3 GFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

65W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

RV635

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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