AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs AMD Radeon HD 6930

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AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP AMD Radeon HD 6930

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 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 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 186W)

AMD Radeon HD 6930 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6930 +1%

1.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

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Radeon HD 6930

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Dec 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

20

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.00 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

60.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.920 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

480.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Cayman

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

186W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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