AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 270 AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (150W vs 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 +13%

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

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Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Aug 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

18

1280

Shading Units

1440

80

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

Cypress

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

151W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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