Radeon R9 270 and Juniper - video card comparison

Radeon R9 270

Juniper

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

Curacao

Juniper

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

November 2013

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Bus support

PCIe 3.0

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

-

Supplementary power connectors

1 x 6-pin

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Boost clock speed

925 MHz

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Floating-point performance

2,368 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

2,800 million

1,040 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

800

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

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Texture fill rate

74.00

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory bandwidth

179.2 GB/s

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Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

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Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

+

-

DirectX

DirectX® 12

11.2 (11_0)

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.4

Shader Model

5.1

5.0

Vulkan

+

N/A

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

DDMA audio

+

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

+

-

LiquidVR

1

-

PowerTune

-

-

TressFX

1

-

TrueAudio

+

-

UVD

+

-

ZeroCore

-

-