Radeon R7 M270DX vs GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated833
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureKepler 2.0 (2013−2015)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGK208Topaz
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date29 May 2013 (11 years ago)11 June 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384384
Core clock speed902 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data940 MHz
Number of transistors915 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Wattno data
Texture fill rate28.8622.56
Floating-point processing power0.6927 TFLOPS0.7219 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs3224

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x8IGP
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA3.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 May 2013 11 June 2014

R7 M270DX has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 and Radeon R7 M270DX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 is a desktop card while Radeon R7 M270DX is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2
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AMD Radeon R7 M270DX
Radeon R7 M270DX

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