AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo vs AMD Radeon R9 270

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 2.1x more boost clock speed: 1975 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • 6405.4x more texture fill rate: 474.0 GTexel/s vs 74 GTexel / s
  • 3x more pipelines: 3840 vs 1280
  • 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 68% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 124927 vs 74175
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 Aug 2021 vs 13 November 2013
Boost clock speed 1975 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate 474.0 GTexel/s vs 74 GTexel / s
Pipelines 3840 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 124927 vs 74175

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270

  • 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 400 Watt
  • Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3699 vs 2786
  • Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3699 vs 2786
  • Around 49% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3347 vs 2243
  • Around 49% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3347 vs 2243
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 400 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3699 vs 2786
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3699 vs 2786
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3347 vs 2243
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3347 vs 2243

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2786
3699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2786
3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2243
3347
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2243
3347
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
124927
74175
Name AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo AMD Radeon R9 270
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2786 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2786 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2243 3347
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2243 3347
Geekbench - OpenCL 124927 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3448
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1603

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo AMD Radeon R9 270

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Navi 21 Curacao
Launch date 3 Aug 2021 13 November 2013
Launch price (MSRP) $4999 $179
Place in performance rating 493 501
Type Workstation Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1975 MHz 925 MHz
Compute units 60
Core clock speed 1800 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 948.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 30.34 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 15.17 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3840 1280
Pixel fill rate 189.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 474.0 GTexel/s 74 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 400 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 26800 million 2,800 million
Floating-point performance 2,368 gflops
Stream Processors 1280

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 4x Thunderbolt 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm (10.5 inches) 210 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None 1 x 6-pin
Width Quad-slot
Bus support PCIe 3.0

API support

DirectX 12.2 12
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s 179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5

Technologies

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