AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 270 and AMD Radeon HD 7950 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, 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
• 2x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 300 Watt
• Around 9% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1282.039 vs 1177.395
• Around 4% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 5.927 vs 5.685
• Around 35% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 93.116 vs 69.23

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950

• Around 35% higher boost clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 925 MHz
• Around 21% higher texture fill rate: 89.6 GTexel / s vs 74 GTexel / s
• Around 40% higher pipelines: 1792 vs 1280
• Around 21% better floating-point performance: 2,867 gflops vs 2,368 gflops
• Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2 GB
• Around 11% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 82144 vs 74175
• Around 14% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 63.74 vs 55.721
• Around 31% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 343.81 vs 261.843
• 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 7988 vs 3448
• 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 7988 vs 3448
• Around 19% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1914 vs 1603

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 270
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7950

Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	74175 82144
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	55.721 63.74
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1282.039 1177.395
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5.927 5.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	93.116 69.23
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	261.843 343.81
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3448 7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3699 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3347 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3448 7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3699 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3347 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	1603 1914

Compare specifications (specs)