Radeon R9 270 1024SP and Radeon HD 5490 - video card comparison
Radeon R9 270 1024SP
Radeon HD 5490
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Pitcairn
Cedar
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
October 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
-
Core clock speed
900 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,894 gflops
104.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
80
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
59.20
5.200
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A