Radeon R9 M270X: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon R9 M270X provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.12% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 M270X sales 21 March 2014. This is a GCN 1.0 architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.13 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 72 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon R9 M270X: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking755
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameVenus
Market segmentLaptop
Release date21 March 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon R9 M270X's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 M270X's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores640of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Compute units10
Core clock speed725 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed775 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors1,500 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Texture fill rate31.00of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.992 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs16of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs40of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon R9 M270X and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0 x16
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 M270X: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1125 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth72 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 M270X. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs
Eyefinity+

Supported technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R9 M270X. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+
HD3D+
PowerTune+
DualGraphics+
ZeroCore+
Switchable graphics+

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon R9 M270X, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectXDirectX® 11
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.4of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCLNot Listed
Mantle+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon R9 M270X. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

R9 M270X 3.12

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

R9 M270X 1204

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon R9 M270X is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

Radeon R9 M270X's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon R9 M270X is GeForce GT 650M, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon R9 M270X:

Radeon R9 M270X 100
GeForce 830A 98.72
GeForce 940M 93.59

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