Radeon R9 270 and Radeon HD 7870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 270 vs Radeon HD 7870
Radeon R9 270
4435
Radeon HD 7870
4779
Radeon R9 270
Radeon HD 7870
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Curacao
Pitcairn XT
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
March 2012
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
1000 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,368 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
2800 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
74.00
80.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
179.2 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
+
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-