Product Compare

AMD Radeon Pro 580 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2017 Nov 2013
Generation Radeon Pro Mac Volcanic Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1100 MHz 900 MHz
Boost Clock 1200 MHz 925 MHz
Memory Clock 1695 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 217.0GB/s 179.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 36 20
Shading Units 2304 1280
TMUs 144 80
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 38.40 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 172.8 GTexel/s 74.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 5.530 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 5.530 TFLOPS 2.368 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 345.6 GFLOPS 148.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Ellesmere Curacao
GPU Variant Ellesmere XTA(216-0886220) Curacao PRO(215-0848000)
Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 14 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5.7 billion 2.8 billion
Die Size 232 mm² 212 mm²
Board Design
TDP 185W 150W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors None 1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU 450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 6.4 5.1
Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy 3791 1603