AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 270

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT and AMD Radeon R9 270 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

AMD Radeon R9 270

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 90% higher boost clock speed: 1757 MHz vs 925 MHz
2279.7x more texture fill rate: 168.7 GTexel/s vs 74 GTexel / s
Around 20% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1280
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 125 Watt vs 150 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB

Launch date	4 Aug 2020 vs 13 November 2013
Boost clock speed	1757 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s vs 74 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt vs 150 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270

Around 74% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 74175 vs 42529

Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	74175 vs 42529

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

42529

74175

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	AMD Radeon R9 270
Geekbench - OpenCL	42529	74175
PassMark - G3D Mark		4306
PassMark - G2D Mark		567
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		55.721
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1282.039
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.927
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		93.116
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		261.843
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3347
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3347
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1603

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	AMD Radeon R9 270
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Navi 14	Curacao
Launch date	4 Aug 2020	13 November 2013
Place in performance rating	512	509
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$179
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1757 MHz	925 MHz
Compute units	24
Core clock speed	1187 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	337.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.80 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.398 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1536	1280
Pixel fill rate	56.22 GPixel/s
Render output units	32
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s	74 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	2,800 million
Floating-point performance		2,368 gflops
Stream Processors		1280
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	1 x 6-pin
Width	IGP
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Length		210 mm
API support
DirectX	12.1	12
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)