Radeon R9 M270 vs Iris Plus Graphics 650

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking654not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency21.11no data
ArchitectureGeneration 9.5 (2016−2020)GCN (2012−2015)
GPU code nameKaby Lake GT3eno data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 January 2017 (7 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 cores384640
Core clock speed300 MHz725 MHz
Boost clock speed1150 MHzno data
Number of transistors189 million1500 Million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm++28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate55.20no data
Floating-point processing power0.8832 TFLOPSno data
ROPs6no data
TMUs48no 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 sizeno datalarge
InterfaceRing Busno 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 typeDDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount32 GB4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared4500 MHz
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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependentno data

Supported technologies

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

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (FL 11_1)
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2017 1 April 2014
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm

Iris Plus Graphics 650 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Iris Plus Graphics 650 and Radeon R9 M270. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650
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