AMD Radeon R9 M270X vs AMD Radeon R5 M230

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M270X

AMD Radeon R5 M230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 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 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1000MHz vs 855MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M270X +293%

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230

0.39 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X

VS

Radeon R5 M230

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Jan 2014

Gem System

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

825 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

855 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

5

-

768

Shading Units

320

48

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.880 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.20 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

390.4 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Jet

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

GPU Variant

Jet S3 ULT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

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

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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