AMD Radeon R9 270X vs ATI Radeon HD 4830

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4830 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 late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4830 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X +265%

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4830

0.736 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

Radeon HD 4830

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Oct 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

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

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

8

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.200 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

736.0 GFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

147.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

RV770

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

RV770 LE (215-0669075)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

95W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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