AMD Radeon R9 270 vs Intel Iris Xe

Compare AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB vs Intel Iris Xe, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

807 points

974 points

20% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

19 FPS

24 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

14 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

10 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1610 points

852% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

169 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22331 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14184 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22701 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11957 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

200% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

925 MHz

1100 MHz

18% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

15 W

900% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigapixels/s

124% significantly higher pixel rate

13.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

74 Gigatexels/s

180% significantly higher texture rate

26.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.37 TFLOPS

8.45 TFLOPS

256% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

233% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

233% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

280th of 586

264th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR4

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon R9 270 vs Iris Xe benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Iris Xe GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 270 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon R9 270 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the Iris Xe has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Iris Xe has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon R9 270 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Iris Xe is better than the Radeon R9 270.