Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking371not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency64.33no data
Architectureno dataGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameRocket Lake GT1Pitcairn
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date30 March 2021 (3 years ago)13 March 2015 (9 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 coresno data1024
Core clock speedno data900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data925 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rateno data59.20
Floating-point processing powerno data1.894 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 data2 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data153.6 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 data2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 March 2021 13 March 2015
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 150 Watt

UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake) has an age advantage of 6 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 900% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake) and Radeon R9 270 1024SP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake) is a notebook card while Radeon R9 270 1024SP is a desktop one.


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Intel UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake)
UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake)
AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP
Radeon R9 270 1024SP

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