AMD Radeon Sky 900 vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

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AMD Radeon Sky 900 AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 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 Sky 900 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (950MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 900 +79%

3.405 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 900

VS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Mar 2015

Radeon Sky

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

950 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

16

1792

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

106.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.405 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

851.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Orthrus

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

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

Board Design

300W

TDP

150W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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