AMD Radeon R9 270 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 270 and ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 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 5 year(s) 3 month(s) later
• Around 6% better floating-point performance: 2,368 gflops vs 2x 1,120.0 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
• Around 91% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 286 Watt
• 3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4306 vs 1309
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3347 vs 3323
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3347 vs 3323

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

• 3.1x more texture fill rate: 2x 28 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 74 GTexel / s
• Around 25% higher pipelines: 2x 800 vs 1280

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 270
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	4306 1309
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	567 565
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3347 3323
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3347 3323

Compare specifications (specs)