AMD Radeon R9 270X vs Intel Arctic Sound M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
Jan 2022
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Data Center GPU
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
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Boost Clock
1050 MHz
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Memory Clock
1400 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2e
Memory Bus
256bit
4096bit
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
1229GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
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Shading Units
1280
8192
TMUs
80
256
ROPs
32
128
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
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L2 Cache
512 KB
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
115.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.00 GTexel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.688 TFLOPS
14.75 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
168.0 GFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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29.49 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Curacao
Arctic Sound
GPU Variant
Curacao XT(215-0848004)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Generation 12.5
Foundry
TSMC
Intel
Process Size
28 nm
10 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
8 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
190 mm²
Board Design
TDP
180W
500W
Suggested PSU
450 W
900 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
8-pin EPS
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
1,769
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.