AMD Radeon R9 270X vs ATI FireGL V3400

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 270X and ATI FireGL V3400 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, 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 270X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 42x more texture fill rate: 84 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
  • 47.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4870 vs 103
  • Around 73% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 612 vs 353
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 October 2013 vs 1 October 2005
Texture fill rate 84 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 128 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4870 vs 103
PassMark - G2D Mark 612 vs 353

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 270X
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V3400

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4870
103
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
612
353
Name AMD Radeon R9 270X ATI FireGL V3400
PassMark - G3D Mark 4870 103
PassMark - G2D Mark 612 353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 63.87
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1314.72
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 6.354
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 85.21
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 315.412
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1772

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 270X ATI FireGL V3400

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 R500
Code name Curacao RV530
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date 8 October 2013 1 October 2005
Launch price (MSRP) $199
Place in performance rating 453 455
Price now $399
Type Desktop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 16.05

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1050 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,688 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 1280
Stream Processors 1280
Texture fill rate 84 GTexel / s 2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 180 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 157 million
Core clock speed 500 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
Supplementary power connectors 2 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 16 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz

Technologies

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