AMD Radeon Sky 700 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 700

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon Sky 700 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 700 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Lower TDP (180W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 700 +20%

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 700

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Oct 2013

Radeon Sky

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

20

-

1792

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

180W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Curacao

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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