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Radeon R9 M270X vs Radeon R9 M275X

Intro

The Radeon R9 M270X makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 725 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1125 MHz on this specific model. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M275X, which has core clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have the exact same memory bandwidth, so in theory they should have the same performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M275X is quite a bit (more or less 24%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M270X. (explain)

Radeon R9 M275X 36000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M270X 29000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 7000 (24%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M275X is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 M275X 14400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M270X 11600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2800 (24%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R9 M270X Radeon R9 M275X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year May 1 2014 May 1 2014
Code Name Venus XT Venus XTX
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 725 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 4500 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) (Unknown) watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 72000 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 29000 Mtexels/sec 36000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 11600 Mpixels/sec 14400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640 640
Texture Mapping Units 40 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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