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AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD Radeon Pro VII

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro VII 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 250W)
AMD Radeon Pro VII 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 62% (1700MHz vs 1050MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)
2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 270X
2.688 TFLOPS
Radeon Pro VII +385%
13.06 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 270X
1769
Radeon Pro VII +407%
8984

Graphics Card

Oct 2013
Release Date
May 2020
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Radeon Pro Vega
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz
Base Clock
1400 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1700 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz

Memory

2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
179.2GB/s
Bandwidth
1020GB/s

Render Config

20
Compute Units
60
-
-
-
1280
Shading Units
3840
80
TMUs
240
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
108.8 GPixel/s
84.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
408.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
26.11 TFLOPS
2.688 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.06 TFLOPS
168.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
6.528 TFLOPS

Board Design

180W
TDP
250W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao
GPU Name
Vega 20
Curacao XT (215-0848004)
GPU Variant
Vega 20 GLXT WS (215-0914026)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 5.1
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
13.23 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
331 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
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