AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

AMD Radeon R9 270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 59% (1471MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +345%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56 +329%

6878

Radeon R9 270

1603

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Nov 2013

Vega

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

20

-

3584

Shading Units

1280

224

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

210W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Curacao

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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