AMD Radeon R9 380X vs AMD FireStream 9270

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 380X 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (182.4GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 380X +231%

3.973 TFLOPS

FireStream 9270

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X

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FireStream 9270

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Nov 2008

Pirate Islands

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1425 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

182.4GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

10

2048

Shading Units

800

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

124.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

3.973 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.973 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

248.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Antigua

GPU Name

RV770

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

GPU Variant

RV770 XT

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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