Radeon R4 Mobile Graphics vs GeForce GTS 360M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking936not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.05no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGT215Spectre SL
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)17 September 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 cores96192
Core clock speed550 MHz533 MHz
Boost clock speedno data655 MHz
Number of transistors727 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)38 Watt17 Watt
Texture fill rate17.606.396
Floating-point processing power0.2757 TFLOPS0.2047 TFLOPS
Gigaflops413no data
ROPs88
TMUs3212

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfaceMXM-IIIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options+-
MXM TypeMXM 3.0 Type-Bno 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speedUp to 2000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth57.6 GB/sno 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 ConnectorsSingle Link DVILVDSHDMIDual Link DVIDisplayPortVGANo outputs
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.16.0
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 17 September 2014
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 38 Watt 17 Watt

R4 Mobile Graphics has an age advantage of 4 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 123.5% lower power consumption.

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