Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870 vs 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
Power efficiencyno data15.01
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code nameno dataVega Kaby Lake-G
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 April 2014 (12 years ago)7 January 2018 (8 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 cores6401280
Core clock speed725 MHz931 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1011 MHz
Number of transistors1500 Millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data65 Watt

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 sizelargemedium sized

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 typeGDDR5HBM2
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed4500 MHzno data
Shared memory--

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (FL 11_1)12_1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2014 7 January 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

RX Vega M GL / 870 has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

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