AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD Radeon Pro V520

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

AMD Radeon Pro V520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro V520 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 225W)

AMD Radeon Pro V520 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (1600MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro V520 +174%

7.373 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

Radeon Pro V520

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Dec 2020

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

36

-

1280

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.75 TFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.373 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

460.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

Navi 12

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

Navi 12

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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