Radeon R9 270X vs Radeon R9 270

Radeon R9 270X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R9 270X
Radeon R9 270
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Nov 2013
Radeon R9 270

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R9 270X
    111%
  • Radeon R9 270
    100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon R9 270X
    105%
  • Radeon R9 270
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 270X

5% higher gaming performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 270

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 270X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 270X

The Radeon R9 270X is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (8 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 270XRadeon R9 270
GPU NameCuracao (Curacao XT)vsCuracao (Curacao PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1280vs1280
Compute Units20vs20
Core clock1000 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs80vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 270XRadeon R9 270
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 270XRadeon R9 270
TDP180 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date8 Oct 2013vs13 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 270X
    32.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 270
    28.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 270X
    80.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 270
    72.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 270X
    179.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 270
    179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 270X
    2560.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 270
    2304.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R9 270X
    8700
  • Radeon R9 270
    7820

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO

  • Radeon R9 270X
    53
  • Radeon R9 270
    49

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • Radeon R9 270X
    52
  • Radeon R9 270
    51

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • Radeon R9 270X
    33
  • Radeon R9 270
    31

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • Radeon R9 270X
    52
  • Radeon R9 270
    51

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • Radeon R9 270X
    48
  • Radeon R9 270
    43

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal

  • Radeon R9 270X
    38
  • Radeon R9 270
    36

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • Radeon R9 270X
    34
  • Radeon R9 270
    32

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • Radeon R9 270X
    39
  • Radeon R9 270
    37

FPS (higher is better)