AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 270 1024SP sales 13 March 2015. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 1.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 153.6 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about Radeon R9 270 1024SP: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name	Pitcairn
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	13 March 2015 (9 years old)

Technical specs

Radeon R9 270 1024SP's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 270 1024SP's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1024	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	900 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	925 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	2,800 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	59.20	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	1,894 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon R9 270 1024SP and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 270 1024SP: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 270 1024SP. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI	+

API support

APIs supported by Radeon R9 270 1024SP, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon R9 270 1024SP. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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