Radeon RX 570X vs Radeon R9 270X

Radeon RX 570X
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Apr 2018
Radeon RX 570X
Radeon R9 270X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R9 270X

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 570X

60 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 270X .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 270X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RX 570X

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 570X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 570XRadeon R9 270X
GPU Name1 (Polaris 20 XL
(215-0910052))
vsCuracao (Curacao XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size244 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders2048vs1280
Compute Units32vs20
Core clock1168 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs128vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 570XRadeon R9 270X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 570XRadeon R9 270X
TDP120 wattsvs180 watts
Release Date11 Apr 2018vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 570X
    39.81 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 270X
    32.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 570X
    159.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 270X
    80.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 570X
    224.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 270X
    179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 570X
    5095.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 270X
    2560.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better