AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 29% higher boost clock speed: 1190 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5300 vs 4306
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 8311 vs 3448
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 8311 vs 3448
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 14 November 2018 vs 13 November 2013
Boost clock speed 1190 MHz vs 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 150 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5300 vs 4306
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8311 vs 3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8311 vs 3448

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270

  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 567 vs 558
  • 2.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 74175 vs 26839
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3699 vs 1842
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3347 vs 1663
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3699 vs 1842
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3347 vs 1663
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 567 vs 558
Geekbench - OpenCL 74175 vs 26839
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3699 vs 1842
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3347 vs 1663
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3699 vs 1842
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3347 vs 1663

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5300
4306
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
558
567
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
26839
74175
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8311
3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1842
3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1663
3347
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8311
3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1842
3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1663
3347
Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 AMD Radeon R9 270
PassMark - G3D Mark 5300 4306
PassMark - G2D Mark 558 567
Geekbench - OpenCL 26839 74175
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8311 3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1842 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1663 3347
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8311 3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1842 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1663 3347
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0 1603
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

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 AMD Radeon R9 270

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Vega 12 Curacao
Launch date 14 November 2018 13 November 2013
Place in performance rating 472 509
Type Workstation Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $179

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1190 MHz 925 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 150 Watt
Floating-point performance 2,368 gflops
Pipelines 1280
Stream Processors 1280
Texture fill rate 74 GTexel / s
Transistor count 2,800 million

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 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm 210 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1 x 6-pin
Bus support PCIe 3.0

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Memory clock speed 2400 MHz
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory type GDDR5

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)