AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Nov 2013
Jul 2017
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Polaris
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
900 MHz
1090 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
1175 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
1750 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
112.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
20
14
Shading Units
1280
896
TMUs
80
56
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
18.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
65.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
2.106 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
131.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.106 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Curacao
Polaris 21
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO(215-0848000)
Polaris 21 XL
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
3 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
123 mm²

Board Design

TDP
150W
45W
Suggested PSU
450 W
200 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.4

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