AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 106% (1905MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT +311%

9.754 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 270

1603

Radeon RX 5700 XT +491%

9474

Radeon R9 270

VS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jul 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1605 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1905 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

40

-

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.9 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

304.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

19.51 TFLOPS

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.754 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

609.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

Navi 10

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

251 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

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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