Radeon R9 270 and Radeon 9000 PRO - video card comparison

Radeon R9 270

Radeon 9000 PRO

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

GPU code name

Curacao

RV250

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

November 2013

July 2002

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

1 x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

925 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

275 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,368 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

2,800 million

36 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

-

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

28 Watt

Texture fill rate

74.00

1.100

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

64 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

550 MHz

Memory bandwidth

179.2 GB/s

8.8 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

8.1

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.4

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

+

N/A

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

DDMA audio

+

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

+

-

LiquidVR

1

-

PowerTune

-

-

TressFX

1

-

TrueAudio

+

-

UVD

+

-

ZeroCore

-

-