AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon R9 380

Compare AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R9 380

Price

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$ 987.00

$ 589.00

$ 398.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

807 points

1280 points

58% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

29 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

19 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS

26 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

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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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1610 points

2801 points

73% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22331 points

29877 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22701 points

28196 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

970 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

925 MHz

970 MHz

4% 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

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

2 GB/s

4 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

26% slightly lower TDP

190 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigapixels/s

31.04 Gigapixels/s

4% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

74 Gigatexels/s

108.6 Gigatexels/s

46% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.37 TFLOPS

3.48 TFLOPS

46% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

1792

40% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

40% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

280th of 586

245th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 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 R9 380 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 380 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 270 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon R9 380 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon R9 380 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon R9 380 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon R9 270 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon R9 380 at 190 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 380 over the Radeon R9 270.