UHD Graphics 610 vs Radeon R9 M270

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated903
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data8.73
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)Generation 9.5 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameno dataCoffee Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 April 2014 (10 years ago)3 April 2018 (6 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 cores64096
Core clock speed725 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data900 MHz
Number of transistors1500 Million189 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm+++
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data10.80
Floating-point processing powerno data0.1728 TFLOPS
ROPsno data2
TMUsno data12

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 dataRing Bus
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed4500 MHzSystem Shared
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

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 dataPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2014 3 April 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

UHD Graphics 610 has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 M270 and UHD Graphics 610. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 M270 is a notebook card while UHD Graphics 610 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R9 M270
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Intel UHD Graphics 610
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