AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD FireStream 9270

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +386%

5.834 TFLOPS

FireStream 9270

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

FireStream 9270

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Nov 2008

Arctic Islands

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

10

2304

Shading Units

800

144

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

RV770

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

RV770 XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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