AMD Radeon R9 270 vs ATI Radeon X1300 PRO

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 270 and ATI Radeon X1300 PRO 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 7 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 30.8x more texture fill rate: 74 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
  • 51.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4306 vs 84
  • Around 81% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 567 vs 313
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 November 2013 vs 1 November 2006
Texture fill rate 74 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 128 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4306 vs 84
PassMark - G2D Mark 567 vs 313

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1300 PRO

  • 4.8x lower typical power consumption: 31 Watt vs 150 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 31 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 270
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1300 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4306
84
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
567
313
Name AMD Radeon R9 270 ATI Radeon X1300 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark 4306 84
PassMark - G2D Mark 567 313
Geekbench - OpenCL 74175
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 - Manhattan (Frames) 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3347
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3347
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1603

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 270 ATI Radeon X1300 PRO

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 R500
Code name Curacao RV516
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date 13 November 2013 1 November 2006
Launch price (MSRP) $179
Place in performance rating 521 518
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 925 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,368 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 1280
Stream Processors 1280
Texture fill rate 74 GTexel / s 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 31 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 107 million
Core clock speed 600 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 210 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.0
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 179.2 GB/s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory type GDDR5 DDR
Memory clock speed 800 MHz

Technologies

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