AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Oct 2013
Sep 2011
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1000 MHz
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Boost Clock
1050 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
1050 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
134.4GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
20
12
Shading Units
1280
960
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.00 GTexel/s
38.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.688 TFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
168.0 GFLOPS
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Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Curacao
Barts
GPU Variant
Curacao XT(215-0848004)
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
255 mm²

Board Design

TDP
180W
254W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 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

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