AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 73% (1600MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +592%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Mar 2015

Radeon Pro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

16

-

4096

Shading Units

1024

256

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

150W

700 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

Pitcairn

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

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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