NVIDIA NV31 vs AMD Radeon R9 M270

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN (2011−2017)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameno dataNV31
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 April 2014 (9 years old)no data
Current priceno data$13.17

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 cores640no data
Core clock speed725 MHzno data
Number of transistors1500 Million80 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm130 nm

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon R9 M270 and NV31 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). 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 sizelargeno 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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed4500 MHzno data
Shared memory-no data

API support

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

DirectX12 (FL 11_1)9.0a
OpenGLno data1.5 (full) 2.0 (partial)
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkanno dataN/A

Advantages and disadvantages


Chip lithography 28 nm 130 nm

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 M270 and NV31. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 M270 is a notebook card while NV31 is a desktop one.


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