Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2013 Sep 2015
Generation Volcanic Islands Pirate Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1000 MHz
Boost Clock 1050 MHz
Memory Clock 1400 MHz 1350 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 512bit
Bandwidth 179.2GB/s 345.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20 40
Shading Units 1280 2560
TMUs 80 160
ROPs 32 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 33.60 GPixel/s 64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 84.00 GTexel/s 160.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.688 TFLOPS 5.120 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 168.0 GFLOPS 640.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Curacao Grenada
GPU Variant Curacao XT(215-0848004) Grenada PRO(215-0880030)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 6.2 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 438 mm²
Board Design
TDP 180W 580W
Suggested PSU 450 W 950 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin 4x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 6.3