AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI455X

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Oct 2013
Jul 2026
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Radeon Instinct
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 6.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1000 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
2400 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
1900 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
432GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM4
Memory Bus
256bit
24576bit
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
23.3TB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
20
256
Shading Units
1280
32768
TMUs
80
1024
ROPs
32
0
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
192 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
0 MPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.00 GTexel/s
2457.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.688 TFLOPS
157.3 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
168.0 GFLOPS
2.458 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
157.3 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Curacao
MI450 256CU
GPU Variant
Curacao XT(215-0848004)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
CDNA 5.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
2 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
320 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
Unknown

Board Design

TDP
180W
2300W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2700 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
N/A

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