Product Compare

AMD Radeon RX 455 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 270

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2016 Nov 2013
Generation Arctic Islands Volcanic Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1625 MHz 1400 MHz
Base Clock 900 MHz
Boost Clock 925 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 128bit 256bit
Bandwidth 104.0GB/s 179.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 12 20
Shading Units 768 1280
TMUs 48 80
ROPs 16 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 256 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 16.80 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 50.40 GTexel/s 74.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.613 TFLOPS 2.368 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 100.8 GFLOPS 148.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tobago Curacao
GPU Variant Tobago PRO(215-0875010) Curacao PRO(215-0848000)
Architecture GCN 2.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2.08 billion 2.8 billion
Die Size 160 mm² 212 mm²
Board Design
TDP 100W 150W
Suggested PSU 300 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 6.3 5.1