AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (1600MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +387%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +299%

7078

Radeon R9 270X

1770

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Oct 2013

Radeon Pro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

20

4096

Shading Units

1280

256

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

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13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Curacao

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

180W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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