AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs AMD Radeon R9 270

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

AMD Radeon R9 270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 54% (1420MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 GME +176%

6.543 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590 GME +176%

4432

Radeon R9 270

1603

Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Mar 2020

Release Date

Nov 2013

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1420 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

20

-

2304

Shading Units

1280

144

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

45.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

204.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

6.543 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.543 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

409.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 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

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Curacao

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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