AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs AMD Radeon Pro W5500

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

AMD Radeon Pro W5500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W5500 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 101% (1855MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (125W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5500 +175%

5.224 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

Radeon Pro W5500

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Feb 2020

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1744 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1855 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

22

-

1024

Shading Units

1408

64

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.36 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.45 TFLOPS

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.224 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

326.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Navi 14

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

2

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

3

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

4

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs AMD Radeon R9 380X

5

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

6

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs NVIDIA P104 101

7

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 TU106

8

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs NVIDIA PG506 242

9

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

10

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs ATI Radeon HD 3550

Related News

1

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

2

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

3

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

4

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

5

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

6

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

7

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

8

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

9

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

10

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim