Radeon R2 (Mullins/Beema/Carrizo-L) vs GeForce GT 320M

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking	not rated	1150
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GT2xx (2009−2012)	GCN 1.1 (2014)
GPU code name	G96C	Beema/Mullins
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	21 January 2010 (14 years ago)	29 April 2014 (10 years ago)
Current price	$310	no data

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	24	128
Core clock speed	500 MHz	300 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	600 MHz
Number of transistors	314 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	14 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	8.000	no data
Floating-point performance	80 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on GeForce GT 320M and Radeon R2 (Mullins/Beema/Carrizo-L) compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	medium sized	no data
Interface	MXM-II	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR3	no data
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	790 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

no data

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 (FL 12_0)
Shader Model	4.0	no data
OpenGL	3.3	no data
OpenCL	1.1	no data
Vulkan	N/A	no data
CUDA	1.1	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	21 January 2010	29 April 2014
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm

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