AMD Radeon Pro Vega II vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega II and AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 75% higher core clock speed: 1574 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • Around 86% higher boost clock speed: 1720 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • 7437.5x more texture fill rate: 440.3 GTexel/s vs 59.2 GTexel / s
  • 4x more pipelines: 4096 vs 1024
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 2 GB
  • Around 41% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 99539 vs 70535
  • 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 16149 vs 6316
  • 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 16149 vs 6316
Specifications (specs)
Launch date Dec 2019 vs 13 March 2015
Core clock speed 1574 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed 1720 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s vs 59.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 4096 vs 1024
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 99539 vs 70535
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16149 vs 6316
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16149 vs 6316

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

  • 3.2x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 475 Watt
  • 3x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1612 MHz
  • 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 8390 vs 3100
  • 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 8390 vs 3100
  • 9.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 27566 vs 2813
  • 9.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 27566 vs 2813
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 475 Watt
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz vs 1612 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8390 vs 3100
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8390 vs 3100
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 27566 vs 2813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 27566 vs 2813

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega II
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
99539
70535
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
16149
6316
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
16149
6316
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3100
8390
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3100
8390
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2813
27566
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2813
27566
Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega II AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP
Geekbench - OpenCL 99539 70535
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16149 6316
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16149 6316
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3100 8390
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3100 8390
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2813 27566
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2813 27566
PassMark - G2D Mark 748
PassMark - G3D Mark 15597

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.1 GCN 1.0
Code name Vega 20 Pitcairn
Launch date Dec 2019 13 March 2015
Place in performance rating 172 171
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1720 MHz 925 MHz
Compute units 64
Core clock speed 1574 MHz 900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 880.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 28.18 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 14.09 TFLOPS
Pipelines 4096 1024
Pixel fill rate 110.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s 59.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 475 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 13230 million 2,800 million
Floating-point performance 1,894 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 4x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin
Width Dual-slot

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 825.3 GB/s 153.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 4096 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1612 MHz 4800 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)