AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD FirePro RG220

VS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1200 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro RG220 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X +3260%

2.688 TFLOPS

FirePro RG220

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

FirePro RG220

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

May 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro RG

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

1

1280

Shading Units

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

M93

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

35W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DMS-59

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

2

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090D vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

5

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4100 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

6

AMD Radeon HD 6450 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

8

AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD Radeon R9 290

9

AMD Radeon R9 270X vs ATI FirePro V9800

10

AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT