AMD Radeon R9 270X vs ATI Radeon X1550 AGP

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

ATI Radeon X1550 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 5.280GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 180W)

Score

Radeon R9 270X

VS

Radeon X1550 AGP

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

330 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

5.280GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

180W

TDP

27W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

RV505

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2

2

AMD Radeon R9 270X vs ATI Radeon HD 5690

3

AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD FirePro S10000

4

AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD Radeon HD 6230

5

AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

6

AMD Radeon R9 270X vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP

7

AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640

8

AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

9

AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD FirePro D500

10

AMD Radeon R9 270X vs ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT

Related News

1

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

2

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

3

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

4

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

5

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

6

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

7

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

8

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

9

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

10

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers