AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 69% (1560MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5600 XT +279%

7.188 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

VS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Mar 2015

Navi

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1130 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

16

-

2304

Shading Units

1024

144

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

99.84 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

224.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

14.38 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.188 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

449.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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