AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon R5 340X

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

807 points
247% significantly better overall score
232 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 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
12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
5 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
318% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
5341 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22701 points
340% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
5148 points

Specifications

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
16 GB/s
700% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W
65 W
130% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigapixels/s
311% significantly higher pixel rate
7.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

74 Gigatexels/s
242% significantly higher texture rate
21.6 Gigatexels/s

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

80
233% significantly more texture mapping units
24

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

283rd of 590
412th of 590

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2015 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

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