AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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AMD Radeon R9 270

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 73% (1600MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +453%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

VS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jul 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

64

-

1280

Shading Units

4096

80

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 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

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

Vega 10

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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