Radeon R9 M270X: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon R9 M270X provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 2.72% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
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Summary
AMD started Radeon R9 M270X sales 21 March 2014. This is a GCN 1.0 architecture notebook 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 a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon R9 M270X: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 808 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 (2012−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Venus | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 21 March 2014 (11 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
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 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Compute units | 10 | |
| Core clock speed | 725 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 775 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Number of transistors | 1,500 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 31.00 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.992 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 40 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 160 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 256 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & 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 |
VRAM capacity and type
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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 1125 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 72 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
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 | + |
Supported 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.
| FreeSync | + | |
| HD3D | + | |
| PowerTune | + | |
| DualGraphics | + | |
| ZeroCore | + | |
| Switchable graphics | + |
API and SDK 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 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| 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 score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon R9 M270X is GeForce GT 650M, which is slower by 1% and lower by 7 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon R9 M270X:
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