Radeon R9 270 and Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile - video card comparison
Radeon R9 270
Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name
Curacao
Vega 10
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2013
June 2018
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
1301 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1138 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,368 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
12,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
74.00
291.4
Memory type
GDDR5
HBM2
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
2048 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
179.2 GB/s
409.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.1.125
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-