Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2013 Unknown
Generation Volcanic Islands Northern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 900 MHz
Boost Clock 925 MHz
Memory Clock 1400 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 179.2GB/s 176.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20 24
Shading Units 1280 1536
TMUs 80 96
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 29.60 GPixel/s 28.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 74.00 GTexel/s 84.48 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.368 TFLOPS 2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 148.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Curacao Antilles
GPU Variant Curacao PRO(215-0848000) Antilles XT(215-0807027)
Architecture GCN 1.0 TeraScale 3
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 2.64 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 389 mm²
Board Design
TDP 150W 375W
Suggested PSU 450 W 750 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 3x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 N/A
Shader Model 5.1 5.0