AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800 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 263W)

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 163% (2430MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7800 XT +1476%

37.32 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 270

1603

Radeon RX 7800 XT +1149%

20031

Radeon R9 270

VS

Radeon RX 7800 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Aug 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1295 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

2430 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

2438 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

624.1GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

60

-

1280

Shading Units

3840

80

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

60

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

233.3 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

583.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

74.65 TFLOPS

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.32 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1166 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

263W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

Navi 32

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

Navi 32 XT (215-180000006)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

28.1 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

346 mm²

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

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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