AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
Nov 2012
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
925 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
975 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
192.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
24
Shading Units
1280
1536
TMUs
80
96
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
31.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.00 GTexel/s
93.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.688 TFLOPS
2.995 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
168.0 GFLOPS
748.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Curacao
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Curacao XT(215-0848004)
Tahiti LE(215-0821122)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
180W
185W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
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