Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI455X

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2013 Jul 2026
Generation Volcanic Islands Radeon Instinct
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 6.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 900 MHz 1000 MHz
Boost Clock 925 MHz 2400 MHz
Memory Clock 1400 MHz 1900 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 432GB
Memory Type GDDR5 HBM4
Memory Bus 256bit 24576bit
Bandwidth 179.2GB/s 23.3TB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20 256
Shading Units 1280 32768
TMUs 80 1024
ROPs 32 0
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 32 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 192 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 29.60 GPixel/s 0 MPixel/s
Texture Rate 74.00 GTexel/s 2457.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.368 TFLOPS 157.3 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 148.0 GFLOPS 2.458 TFLOPS
FP16 (half) 157.3 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Curacao MI450 256CU
GPU Variant Curacao PRO(215-0848000)
Architecture GCN 1.0 CDNA 5.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 2 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 320 billion
Die Size 212 mm² Unknown
Board Design
TDP 150W 2300W
Suggested PSU 450 W 2700 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 No outputs
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) N/A
OpenGL 4.6 N/A
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 N/A
Shader Model 5.1 N/A