Radeon R9 M270X: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.11% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
AMD started Radeon R9 M270X sales 21 March 2014. This is a GCN 1.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.13 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 72 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon R9 M270X: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 715 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 (2012−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Venus | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 21 March 2014 (10 years ago) |
Technical specs
Radeon R9 M270X's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 M270X's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 640 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Compute units | 10 | |
| Core clock speed | 725 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 775 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 1,500 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Texture fill rate | 31.00 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 1,536 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon R9 M270X and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Bus support | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 M270X: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1125 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 72 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 M270X. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs | |
| Eyefinity | 1 |
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R9 M270X. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| AppAcceleration | - | |
| Enduro | - | |
| FreeSync | 1 | |
| HD3D | + | |
| PowerTune | + | |
| DualGraphics | 1 | |
| TrueAudio | - | |
| ZeroCore | + | |
| Switchable graphics | 1 |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon R9 M270X, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | DirectX® 11 | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | Not Listed | |
| Mantle | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon R9 M270X. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon R9 M270X is GeForce GTX 295, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.
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