AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD Radeon R9 270

AMD 2013-11
G

AMD Radeon RX 9070

AMD 2025-03

Graphics Card

Release Date
Nov 2013
Mar 2025
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Navi IV
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
900 MHz
1330 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
2520 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
2518 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
644.6GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
20
56
Shading Units
1280
3584
TMUs
80
224
ROPs
32
128
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
512 KB
8 MB
Tensor Cores
-
112
RT Cores
-
56
L3 Cache
-
64 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
322.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
564.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
36.13 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
1129 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
72.25 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Curacao
Navi 48
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO(215-0848000)
Navi 48 XT(215-176600331)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
RDNA 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
4 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
53.9 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
357 mm²

Board Design

TDP
150W
220W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.8

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