Radeon R9 M270 vs HD 8610G

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1085not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 3 (2010−2013)GCN (2012−2015)
GPU code nameRichlandno data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date23 May 2013 (11 years ago)1 April 2014 (10 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 cores384640
Core clock speed533 MHz725 MHz
Boost clock speed626 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data1500 Million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm28 nm

Form factor & compatibility

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Laptop sizemedium sizedlarge

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 typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data4500 MHz
Shared memory+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX1112 (FL 11_1)

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 May 2013 1 April 2014
Chip lithography 32 nm 28 nm

R9 M270 has an age advantage of 10 months, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

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AMD Radeon HD 8610G
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