AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon 530

Compare AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB vs AMD Radeon 530 4 GB, 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
295% significantly better overall score
204 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22331 points
220% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6960 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22701 points
257% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6343 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

925 MHz
1024 MHz
10% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB
4 GiB
100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
300% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

2 GB/s
48 GB/s
2299% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigapixels/s
260% significantly higher pixel rate
8.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

74 Gigatexels/s
201% significantly higher texture rate
24.58 Gigatexels/s

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
300% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

279th of 586
429th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series
Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
-

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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Radeon R9 270 vs Radeon 530 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 270 GPU is faster than the Radeon 530 in gaming.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon 530 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R9 270 is faster than the Radeon 530.

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