AMD Radeon R7 M270: specs and benchmarks

General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Gaming
NVIDIA equivalent
Advices and comments
Summary
AMD started Radeon R7 M270 sales 7 January 2014. This is GCN architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. of Not Listed memory clocked at are supplied, and together with memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 28.8 GB / s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.25 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile.
General info
Of Radeon R7 M270's architecture, market type and release date.
Architecture
GCN
Code name
Opal XT / Mars
Type
Laptop
Release date
7 January 2014
Technical specs
Radeon R7 M270's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R7 M270's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on Radeon R7 M270's 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 size
medium sized
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R7 M270: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R7 M270.
Display Connectors
No outputs
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R7 M270. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
FreeSync
+
HD3D
+
PowerTune
+
DualGraphics
+
ZeroCore
+
Switchable graphics
+
PCIe 3.0
+
Zero Core
+
API support
APIs supported by Radeon R7 M270, sometimes including their particular versions.
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon R7 M270. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
0.25
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
6365
3DMark Fire Strike Score
1177
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
1258
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
1858
3DMark Vantage Performance
6715
Unigine Heaven 3.0
24
Passmark
774
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Radeon R7 M270 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon R7 M270 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R7 M270 from NVIDIA is GeForce 825M, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 4 positions in our rating.