AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

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AMD Radeon R9 270X AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 345W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1677MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling +411%

13.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

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Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1406 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1677 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

64

1280

Shading Units

4096

80

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.3 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

429.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

27.48 TFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.74 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

858.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

Vega 10

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

345W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

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CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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