R9 M270 vs RX 490M

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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
ArchitecturePolaris (2016−2019)GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code namePolarisno data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 August 2016 (7 years old)1 April 2014 (9 years old)
Current price$479 no data

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 coresno data640
Core clock speedno data725 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1500 Million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon RX 490M and Radeon R9 M270 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. 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 sizelargelarge

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data4500 MHz
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API support

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

DirectX1212 (FL 11_1)

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 1 August 2016 1 April 2014
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm

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