AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2013
Jan 2021
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Cezanne
Type
Desktop
Integrated
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
900 MHz
300 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
System Shared
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
System Shared
Memory Type
GDDR5
System Shared
Memory Bus
256bit
System Shared
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
System Dependent
Render Config
Compute Units
20
8
Shading Units
1280
512
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
8
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
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L2 Cache
512 KB
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Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
16.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
64.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
2.048 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
128.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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4.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Curacao
Cezanne
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO(215-0848000)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 5.1
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
9.8 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
156 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
45W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
1,603
893
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
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423
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.