AMD Radeon R9 M270X vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M270X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1000MHz vs 700MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M270X +186%

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X

VS

Radeon HD 8730M

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Apr 2013

Gem System

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

650 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

700 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

6

768

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.600 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

537.6 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Mars

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

GPU Variant

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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