AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 99% (1845MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

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

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (110W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM +174%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Oct 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

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

59.04 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

110W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Navi 14

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

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

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5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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