Radeon R9 M270 and GeForce MX230 - video card comparison

Radeon R9 M270

GeForce MX230

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

-

N17S-G0

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

April 2014

February 2019

Interface

-

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

-

1531 MHz

Core clock speed

725 MHz

1519 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

1500 Million

1,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

256

Power consumption (TDP)

-

10 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

25.31

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

4500 MHz

7000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

48.06 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

12 (FL 11_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

-

1.2

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.4

Vulkan

-

1.2.131

Optimus

-

+