AMD Radeon RX 570X vs AMD Radeon R9 270

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 570X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1244MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 570X +115%

5.095 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570X

VS

Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Nov 2013

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1244 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

20

2048

Shading Units

1280

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.81 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

159.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

5.095 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.095 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

318.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Curacao

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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