AMD Radeon R9 270X vs ATI FireMV 2260

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 256MB VRAM FireMV 2260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1240 additional rendering cores

ATI FireMV 2260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X +6620%

2.688 TFLOPS

FireMV 2260

0.04 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

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FireMV 2260

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FireMV Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

2

1280

Shading Units

40

80

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.00 GFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

RV620

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

15W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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