Radeon R9 M270 vs GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking295not rated
Place by popularity71not in top-100
Power efficiency26.27no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)GCN (2012−2015)
GPU code nameTU117no data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 April 2020 (4 years ago)1 April 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 cores1024640
Core clock speed1380 MHz725 MHz
Boost clock speed1560 MHzno data
Number of transistors4,700 million1500 Million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate99.84no data
Floating-point processing power3.195 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs64no data

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 sizemedium sizedlarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no 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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (FL 11_1)
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.140-
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 April 2020 1 April 2014
Chip lithography 12 nm 28 nm

GTX 1650 Mobile has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile and Radeon R9 M270. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile
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AMD Radeon R9 M270
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