Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking544not rated
Place by popularity25not in top-100
Power efficiency41.70no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameVegaPitcairn
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2020 (5 years ago)13 March 2015 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores5121024
Core clock speedno data900 MHz
Boost clock speed2100 MHz925 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rateno data59.20
Floating-point processing powerno data1.894 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
L1 Cacheno data256 KB
L2 Cacheno data512 KB

Form factor & compatibility

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

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data153.6 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno data2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 13 March 2015
Chip lithography 7 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 150 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 900% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon R9 270 1024SP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook graphics card while Radeon R9 270 1024SP is a desktop one.

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
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