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

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AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 1 years and 5 months late

Lower TDP (150W vs 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1050MHz vs 925MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X +41%

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

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Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Oct 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

20

-

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

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1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Curacao

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

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5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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