AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

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AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 295W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 67% (1546MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64 +568%

12.66 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

Radeon RX Vega 64

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Aug 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1247 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1546 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

64

1024

Shading Units

4096

64

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

98.94 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

395.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

25.33 TFLOPS

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.66 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

791.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Vega 10

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

295W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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