AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 67% (1545MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +200%

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 270

1603

Radeon RX 590 +196%

4757

Radeon R9 270

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Nov 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

36

-

1280

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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