AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD Radeon RX 470D
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1206MHz vs 1050MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 270X
2.688 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 470D
+60%
4.322 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Oct 2016
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Arctic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
926 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
179.2GB/s
Bandwidth
211.2GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
28
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-
-
1280
Shading Units
1792
80
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
32
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-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
84.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.1 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
4.322 TFLOPS
2.688 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.322 TFLOPS
168.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
270.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
120W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Curacao
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Curacao XT
(215-0848004)
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 PROD
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
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5.1
Shader Model
6.4
