AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
Jun 2016
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Polaris
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1120 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1266 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
256.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
36
Shading Units
1280
2304
TMUs
80
144
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
40.51 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.00 GTexel/s
182.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.688 TFLOPS
5.834 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
168.0 GFLOPS
364.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.834 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Curacao
Ellesmere
GPU Variant
Curacao XT(215-0848004)
Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
180W
150W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
1,769
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