ATI 3D Rage PRO Turbo vs Radeon R9 270X

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking389not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation5.63no data
Power efficiency4.86no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)no data
GPU code nameCuracaoRage Pro Turbo
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date8 October 2013 (11 years ago)1 March 1997 (27 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1280no data
Core clock speedno data75 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,800 million8 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm350 nm
Power consumption (TDP)180 Wattno data
Texture fill rate84.000.08
Floating-point processing power2.688 TFLOPSno data
ROPs321
TMUs801

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16AGP 2x
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2 x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5SDR
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data75 MHz
Memory bandwidth179.2 GB/s600 MB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x VGA
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HDMI+-
DisplayPort support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration+-
CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-
HD3D+-
LiquidVR+-
TressFX+-
TrueAudio+-
UVD+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXDirectX® 126.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.1
OpenCL1.2None
Vulkan+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 October 2013 1 March 1997
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 4 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 350 nm

R9 270X has an age advantage of 16 years, a 102300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 270X and 3D Rage PRO Turbo. We've got no test results to judge.


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