Radeon R9 270 1024SP: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 270 1024SP sales 13 March 2015. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 1.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 153.6 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon R9 270 1024SP: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

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Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code namePitcairn
Market segmentDesktop
Release date13 March 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon R9 270 1024SP's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 270 1024SP's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1024of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed900 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed925 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors2,800 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)150 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate59.20of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power1.894 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs32of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs64of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon R9 270 1024SP and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 270 1024SP: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1200 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 270 1024SP. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI+

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon R9 270 1024SP, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon R9 270 1024SP. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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NVIDIA equivalent

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