AMD Radeon VII vs AMD Radeon R9 270

VS

AMD Radeon VII AMD Radeon R9 270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 VII 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 89% (1750MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2TB/s vs 1.02TB/s)

Lower TDP (150W vs 295W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon VII +467%

13.44 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon VII +479%

9294

Radeon R9 270

1603

Radeon VII

VS

Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Nov 2013

Vega II

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1400 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.02TB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

20

3840

Shading Units

1280

240

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

112.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

420.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

26.88 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.44 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

3.360 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 20

GPU Name

Curacao

Vega 20 XT

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GCN 5.1

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.23 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

331 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

295W

TDP

150W

600 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

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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