AMD Radeon R9 270X vs ATI FireGL V7700

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 270X and ATI FireGL V7700 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 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • 6.8x more texture fill rate: 84 GTexel / s vs 12.43 GTexel / s
  • 4x more pipelines: 1280 vs 320
  • 5.4x better floating-point performance: 2,688 gflops vs 497.3 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
  • 7.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4893 vs 660
  • Around 45% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 611 vs 422
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 October 2013 vs 19 November 2007
Texture fill rate 84 GTexel / s vs 12.43 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1280 vs 320
Floating-point performance 2,688 gflops vs 497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4893 vs 660
PassMark - G2D Mark 611 vs 422

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 270X
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V7700

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4893
660
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
611
422
Name AMD Radeon R9 270X ATI FireGL V7700
PassMark - G3D Mark 4893 660
PassMark - G2D Mark 611 422
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 63.455
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1314.545
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 6.339
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 85.21
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 315.366
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 1771

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 270X ATI FireGL V7700

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 TeraScale
Code name Curacao RV670
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date 8 October 2013 19 November 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $199 $899
Place in performance rating 439 351
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 497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 1280 320
Stream Processors 1280
Texture fill rate 84 GTexel / s 12.43 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 180 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 666 million
Core clock speed 777 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2 x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Length 254 mm

API support

DirectX 12 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 179.2 GB/s 72.1 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR4
Shared memory 0
Memory clock speed 2252 MHz

Technologies

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