AMD Radeon E8870 vs AMD Radeon R9 M270X

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AMD Radeon E8870

AMD Radeon R9 M270X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon R9 M270X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8870

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870

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Radeon R9 M270X

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Feb 2015

Embedded

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

12

-

768

Shading Units

768

48

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Saturn

Saturn PRO

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

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6.3

Shader Model

6.5

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