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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

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GPU AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 900 MHz – 925 MHz · 150W Change

Specifications

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2012 Mar 2015
Generation Southern Islands Volcanic Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1200 MHz 1200 MHz
Base Clock 900 MHz
Boost Clock 925 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 153.6GB/s 153.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20 16
Shading Units 1280 1024
TMUs 80 64
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 32.00 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 80.00 GTexel/s 59.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.560 TFLOPS 1.894 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 160.0 GFLOPS 118.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Pitcairn Pitcairn
GPU Variant Pitcairn XT(215-0828047) Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 2.8 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 212 mm²
Board Design
TDP 175W 150W
Suggested PSU 450 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 5.1