AMD Radeon R9 270: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 270 sales 13 November 2013 at a recommended price of $179. This is GCN 1.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 179.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 210 mm. 1 x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 21.12 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Technologies Benchmarks Mining NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Radeon R9 270's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

158

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Code name

Curacao

Type

Desktop

Design

reference

Release date

13 November 2013

Launch price (MSRP)

$179

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Technical specs

Radeon R9 270's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 270's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

1280

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Boost Clock

925 MHz

of 2025 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Transistor count

2,800 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

74.00

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

2,368 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon R9 270's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

210 mm

Supplementary power connectors

1 x 6-pin

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 270: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory bandwidth

179.2 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 270.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Eyefinity

HDMI

DisplayPort support

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R9 270. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire

FreeSync

HD3D

LiquidVR

TressFX

TrueAudio

UVD

DDMA audio

API support

APIs supported by Radeon R9 270, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

DirectX® 12

OpenGL

4.5

of 4.6

Vulkan

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon R9 270. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

21.28

Unigine Heaven 4.0

711

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

5930

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R9 270. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

293 Mh/s

Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)

16 Mh/s

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon R9 270 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

107.34 %

AMD Radeon E8950

106.01 %

AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

103.69 %

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

100 %

AMD Radeon R9 270

97.21 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 270 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 660 Ti, which is faster by 1% and higher by 1 position in our rating.