AMD Radeon R9 M270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

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AMD Radeon R9 M270X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M270X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 60.00GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M270X +196%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460M

0.518 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X

VS

GeForce GTX 460M

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Sep 2010

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

625 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

60.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

192

48

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

518.4 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GF106

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

GPU Variant

N11E-GS-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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