RTX A1000 Mobile vs Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated221
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code namePitcairnGA107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date13 March 2015 (9 years ago)30 March 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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 cores10242048
Core clock speed900 MHzno data
Boost clock speed925 MHz1140 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt95 Watt (35 - 95 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate59.2072.96
Floating-point performance1,894 gflopsno data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon R9 270 1024SP and RTX A1000 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). 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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed4800 MHz14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/s176.0 GB/s
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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDAno data8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 March 2015 30 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 95 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 270 1024SP and RTX A1000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 270 1024SP is a desktop card while RTX A1000 Mobile is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP
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