Radeon R7 M270DX vs R3 Graphics

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated829
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameBeemaTopaz
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date28 January 2015 (9 years ago)11 June 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 cores128384
Core clock speed267 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed600 MHz940 MHz
Number of transistors930 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.80022.56
Floating-point processing power0.1536 TFLOPS0.7219 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs824

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).

InterfaceIGPIGP
WidthIGPno data

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 typeSystem SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
Shared memoryno data+

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.36.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 January 2015 11 June 2014

R3 Graphics has an age advantage of 7 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R3 Graphics and Radeon R7 M270DX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R3 Graphics is a desktop card while Radeon R7 M270DX is a notebook one.


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