Radeon HD 8670D IGP vs Radeon R9 270X
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8670D IGP |
| 80 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 270X . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon R9 270X |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R9 270X
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 8670D IGP | | Radeon R9 270X | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Devastator () | vs | Curacao (Curacao XT) |
| Fab Process | 32 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 246 mm² | vs | 212 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,303 million | vs | 2,800 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 1280 |
| Compute Units | 6 | vs | 20 |
| Core clock | 844 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 24 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 8670D IGP | | Radeon R9 270X | |
|---|
| Memory Type | System Shared | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | System Shared | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | System Shared | vs | 1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 0 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 8670D IGP | | Radeon R9 270X | |
|---|
| TDP | 100 watts | vs | 180 watts |
| Release Date | 12 Mar 2013 | vs | 8 Oct 2013 |
Radeon HD 8670D IGP
6.75 GP/s
Radeon R9 270X
32.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 8670D IGP
20.30 GT/s
Radeon R9 270X
80.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 8670D IGP
0.00 GB/s
Radeon R9 270X
179.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 8670D IGP
648.20 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 270X
2560.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better