Radeon R9 270 and GeForce FX 5800 - video card comparison

Radeon R9 270

GeForce FX 5800

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

Curacao

NV30

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

November 2013

March 2003

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

1 x 6-pin

1x Molex

Boost clock speed

925 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

400 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,368 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

2,800 million

125 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

-

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

44 Watt

Texture fill rate

74.00

3.200

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

128 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

179.2 GB/s

12.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

+

-

DirectX

DirectX® 12

9.0a

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.5 (2.1)

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

+

N/A

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

DDMA audio

+

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

+

-

LiquidVR

1

-

PowerTune

-

-

TressFX

1

-

TrueAudio

+

-

UVD

+

-

ZeroCore

-

-