Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 M270X vs AMD Radeon RX 480

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Feb 2015 Jun 2016
Generation Gem System Arctic Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 900 MHz 1120 MHz
Boost Clock 1000 MHz 1266 MHz
Memory Clock 1375 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 128bit 256bit
Bandwidth 88.00GB/s 256.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 12 36
Shading Units 768 2304
TMUs 48 144
ROPs 16 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 256 KB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 16.00 GPixel/s 40.51 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 48.00 GTexel/s 182.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.536 TFLOPS 5.834 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 96.00 GFLOPS 364.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 5.834 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Saturn Ellesmere
GPU Variant Saturn PRO(216-0843044) Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184)
Architecture GCN 2.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 2.08 billion 5.7 billion
Die Size 160 mm² 232 mm²
Board Design
TDP Unknown 150W
Outputs Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU 450 W
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
Vulkan 1.2.170 1.3
Shader Model 6.5 6.7