AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2015
Jan 2013
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Sea Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
900 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
925 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
16
28
Shading Units
1024
1792
TMUs
64
112
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
59.20 GTexel/s
103.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.894 TFLOPS
3.315 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
118.4 GFLOPS
828.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Pitcairn
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
200W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 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