AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 270

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R9 270

Price

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$ 488.33

$ 498.67 significantly less expensive

$ 987.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5396 points

568% significantly better overall score

807 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

92 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

19 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

80 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

17 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

495% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1610 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

218% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

22331 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

245% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

22701 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

78% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

105% significantly higher boost clock speed

925 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

2 GiB

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

448 GB/s

22300% significantly higher memory bandwidth

2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

150 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

311% significantly higher pixel rate

29.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

311% significantly higher texture rate

74 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

311% significantly better floating point performance

2.37 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

100% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

100% 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

93rd of 586

279th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs Radeon R9 270 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5700 XT beats the Radeon R9 270 in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 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 5700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 5700 XT has significantly more memory with 8 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 R9 270 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5700 XT at 225 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 5700 XT is better than the Radeon R9 270.