Radeon RX 5300M vs R9 M270

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated419
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data9.15
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameno dataNavi 14
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 April 2014 (10 years ago)13 November 2019 (5 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 cores6401408
Core clock speed725 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1445 MHz
Number of transistors1500 Million6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data85 Watt
Texture fill rateno data127.2
Floating-point processing powerno data4.069 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data88

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).

Laptop sizelargemedium sized
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 amount4 GB3 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed4500 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data168.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2014 13 November 2019
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 3 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm

R9 M270 has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RX 5300M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 M270 and Radeon RX 5300M. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R9 M270
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