3D Rage IIC PCI vs Radeon R9 270X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1050MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 1997
Release Date
Oct 2013
Rage 2
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1050 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
33.60 GPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/s
Texture Rate
84.00 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
2.688 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
168.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
180W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
-
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Rage IIC
GPU Name
Curacao
Rage IIC PCI
(215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
Curacao XT
(215-0848004)
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
