AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 7500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 149% (2300MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (100W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7500 XT +297%

9.421 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

VS

Radeon RX 7500 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1452 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

2300 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

216.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

16

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

73.60 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

147.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

18.84 TFLOPS

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.421 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

294.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

Navi 33

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

Navi 33

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

13.3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

204 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

100W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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