AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 270X AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 300W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (1600MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (16GB 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 Vega Frontier Edition +387%

13.11 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 270X

1770

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +299%

7078

Radeon R9 270X

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

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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

102.4 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

Vega 10

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

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

300W

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

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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