AMD Radeon R9 270: GPU Specs & Benchmarks

The Radeon R9 270 is a graphics card by AMD, built on the 28 nm process and based on the Curacao graphics processor (GPU). The video card specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.

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Graphics Processor (GPU)

GPU Name
Curacao
Model number
Curacao PRO
(215-0848000)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
Transistors
2,800 million
Die Size
212 mm²

Graphics Card

Release Date
Nov 13th, 2013
Family
Volcanic Islands
(R9 200)
Production
End-of-life
Launch Price
179 USD
Predecessor
Sea Islands
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Memory

Memory Size
2 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
Bandwidth
179.2 GB/s

Performance

Pixel fillrate
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture fillrate
74.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance
2.368 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance
148.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
900 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
5.6 Gbps effective

Render Config

Shading Units
1280
TMUs
80
ROPs
32
Compute Units
20
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB

Board Design

Slot Width
Dual-slot
Length
210 mm
8.3 inches
Thermal design power (TDP)
150 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
Display Connectors
2x DVI
1x HDMI
1x DisplayPort
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Board Number
C630,
C631,
C632

API support

DirectX
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
Radeon R9 270
AMD Radeon R9 270: GPU Specs & Benchmarks