AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

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AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +202%

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Apr 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro GCN

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

36

1024

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.78 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.728 TFLOPS

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.728 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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