AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

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AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1206MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D +128%

4.322 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Oct 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

28

-

1024

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

270.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PROD

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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