AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100

Compare AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100

Price

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$ 987.00

$ 82.02

$ 904.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

807 points

85% significantly better overall score

436 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

10 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22331 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11128 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22701 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10310 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

925 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

925 MHz

1219 MHz

31% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

35 W

328% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigapixels/s

51% significantly higher pixel rate

19.5 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

74 Gigatexels/s

89% significantly higher texture rate

39.01 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.37 TFLOPS

89% significantly better floating point performance

1.25 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

150% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

280th of 586

346th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Radeon PRO

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon R9 270 vs Radeon Pro WX 2100 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R9 270 beats the Radeon Pro WX 2100 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon Pro WX 2100 has a slightly 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. In addition, the Radeon Pro WX 2100 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon Pro WX 2100 has a significantly lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the Radeon R9 270 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R9 270 over the Radeon Pro WX 2100.