AMD Radeon R9 270 vs ATI Radeon HD 5630

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5630 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 12.48GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5630 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 +469%

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5630

0.416 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

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Radeon HD 5630

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Feb 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

390 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

12.48GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

4

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

416.0 GFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

Redwood

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

Redwood LE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

39W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

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CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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