3D Rage IIC PCI vs Radeon R9 270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 270 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock925MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 1997
Release Date
Nov 2013
Rage 2
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
925 MHz
83 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
2MB
Memory Size
2GB
SDR
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
0.664GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
1
TMUs
80
1
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
60.00 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
150W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Rage IIC
GPU Name
Curacao
Rage IIC PCI
(215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO
(215-0848000)
Rage 2
Architecture
GCN 1.0
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
500 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.005 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
39 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
5.0
DirectX
12 (11_1)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
Shader Model
5.1
