AMD Radeon R9 270X: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 270X sales 8 October 2013 at a recommended price of $199. 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. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 180 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 25.23 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

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

General info

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

Place in performance rating

127

Perfomance to price

35.14

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Code name

Curacao

Type

Desktop

Design

reference

Release date

8 October 2013

Launch price (MSRP)

$199

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price

$299

of 4095.95 (Quadro P6000)

Technical specs

Radeon R9 270X'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 270X'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

1050 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)

180 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

84.00

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

2,688 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon R9 270X'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

Supplementary power connectors

2 x 6-pin

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 270X: 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)

Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

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

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Eyefinity

HDMI

DisplayPort support

Technologies

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

AppAcceleration

CrossFire

FreeSync

HD3D

LiquidVR

TressFX

TrueAudio

UVD

DDMA audio

Eyefinity

API support

APIs supported by Radeon R9 270X, 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 270X. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

25.23

Unigine Heaven 4.0

735

Passmark

4684

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

6560

Mining hashrates

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

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

318 Mh/s

Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)

30 Mh/s

Zcash / ZEC (Equihash)

163 Sol/s

Relative perfomance

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

107.06 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

106.1 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

100.36 %

AMD Radeon R7 370

100 %

AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 270X from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 670, which is slower by 3% and lower by 5 positions in our rating.