AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile and AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 26% higher core clock speed: 1138 MHz vs 900 MHz
Around 41% higher boost clock speed: 1301 MHz vs 925 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 150 Watt
Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 8917 vs 8390
Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 8917 vs 8390

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2018 vs 13 March 2015
Core clock speed	1138 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed	1301 MHz vs 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 150 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8917 vs 8390
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8917 vs 8390

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

3x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

8917

8390

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

8917

8390

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8917	8390
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8917	8390
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6316
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6316
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		27566
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		27566
Geekbench - OpenCL		70535

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Vega 10	Pitcairn
Launch date	1 June 2018	13 March 2015
Place in performance rating	134	165
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1301 MHz	925 MHz
Core clock speed	1138 MHz	900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	12,500 million	2,800 million
Floating-point performance		1,894 gflops
Pipelines		1024
Texture fill rate		59.2 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	4800 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		153.6 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory type		GDDR5