AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500M

Compare AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500M 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

1993 points

146% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

44 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

31 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS

38 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

18 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1610 points

4472 points

177% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22331 points

36948 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22701 points

38725 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

1375 MHz

52% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

925 MHz

1645 MHz

77% significantly 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

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

2 GB/s

224 GB/s

11100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

85 W

76% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigapixels/s

52.6 Gigapixels/s

77% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

74 Gigatexels/s

144.76 Gigatexels/s

95% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.37 TFLOPS

4.63 TFLOPS

95% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

1408

10% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

10% 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

279th of 586

209th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon R9 270 vs Radeon RX 5500M comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5500M graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 270 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 5500M 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 5500M also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 5500M has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500M has a significantly lower TDP at 85 W when compared to the Radeon R9 270 at 150 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 5500M is faster than the Radeon R9 270.