AMD Radeon R9 M270X vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 M270X

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M270X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition 's Advantages

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M270X +91%

1.536 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

0.804 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Aug 2009

Gem System

Generation

M9x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

10

-

768

Shading Units

800

48

TMUs

40

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

8.048 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.12 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

804.8 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

161.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

M98

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

GPU Variant

M98 L2 (216-0732019)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

4.1

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