R9 M270 vs R5 M420

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking994not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN (2011−2017)GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code nameJetno data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 June 2016 (7 years old)1 April 2014 (9 years old)

Technical specs

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 cores320640
Core clock speed780 MHz725 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHzno data
Number of transistors690 million1500 Million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Texture fill rate17.00no data
Floating-point performance547.2 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon R5 M420 and Radeon R9 M270 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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8no data

Memory

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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

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 support

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (FL 11_1)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 1 June 2016 1 April 2014

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