GeForce 805A vs Radeon R9 M270

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Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code nameno dataGK208
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 April 2014 (12 years ago)22 July 2014 (11 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 cores640192
Core clock speed725 MHz719 MHz
Boost clock speedno data758 MHz
Number of transistors1500 Million915 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data12.13
Floating-point processing powerno data0.2911 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data16
L1 Cacheno data32 KB
L2 Cacheno data128 KB

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
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x8

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed4500 MHz1001 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data16.02 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (FL 11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.1.126
CUDA-3.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2014 22 July 2014
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB

R9 M270 has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GeForce 805A, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 M270 and GeForce 805A. We've got no test results to judge.

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