Radeon RX 560 and Radeon R9 270 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon R9 270
Radeon RX 560
3756
Radeon R9 270
4435
Radeon RX 560
Radeon R9 270
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Polaris 21
Curacao
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
November 2013
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1 x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1275 MHz
925 MHz
Core clock speed
1175 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
2,611 gflops
2,368 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
81.60
74.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
179.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
+
LiquidVR
-
1
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
-
1
TrueAudio
-
+
UVD
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-