AMD Radeon R9 270 vs Intel Arc A550M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2013
Jan 2022
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Alchemist
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
900 MHz
300 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
224.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
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Shading Units
1280
2048
TMUs
80
128
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
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L2 Cache
512 KB
8 MB
RT Cores
—
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
57.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
115.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
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FP16 (half)
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7.373 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Curacao
DG2-512
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO(215-0848000)
ACM-G10
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Generation 12.7
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
6 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
21.7 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
406 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
60W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
1,603
5,235
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
2,347
Blender
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809
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.