AMD Radeon R9 270X vs ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 270X and ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View 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 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 21x more texture fill rate: 84 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
  • 16x more pipelines: 1280 vs 80
  • 33.6x better floating-point performance: 2,688 gflops vs 80 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
  • 28.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4869 vs 170
  • Around 74% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 613 vs 352
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 October 2013 vs 1 April 2010
Texture fill rate 84 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1280 vs 80
Floating-point performance 2,688 gflops vs 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4869 vs 170
PassMark - G2D Mark 613 vs 352

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View

  • 10.6x lower typical power consumption: 17 Watt vs 180 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 17 Watt vs 180 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 270X
GPU 2: ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4869
170
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
613
352
Name AMD Radeon R9 270X ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View
PassMark - G3D Mark 4869 170
PassMark - G2D Mark 613 352
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 FirePro 2460 Multi-View

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 TeraScale 2
Code name Curacao Cedar
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date 8 October 2013 1 April 2010
Launch price (MSRP) $199
Place in performance rating 453 454
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 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 1280 80
Stream Processors 1280
Texture fill rate 84 GTexel / s 4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 180 Watt 17 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 292 million
Core clock speed 500 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 4x mini-DisplayPort
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 None
Length 170 mm

API support

DirectX 12 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 179.2 GB/s 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz

Technologies

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