AMD Radeon R9 270 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT X2

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 +1133%

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2600 XT X2

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

VS

Radeon HD 2600 XT X2

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jul 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

3

-

1280

Shading Units

120

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

4x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

RV630

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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