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AMD Radeon R9 M270X

The AMD Radeon R9 M270X is a graphics card released on May 1, 2014. It has 640 shading units, 4 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit bus, 72.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth and a boost clock of 775 MHz. It scores 1,204 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.4.

8/10 key specs recorded · 36 facts

Depth: 33 recorded fields, 2 features, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified August 11, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and AMD.com Specifications. Coverage: 8 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark AMD.com Specifications PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

640cores

10 compute units

Memory

4 GB

GDDR5 · 128-bit

Boost clock

775 MHz

Board power

n/a

Performance

The AMD Radeon R9 M270X scores 1,204 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 57.9% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #1,291), measured across 18 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 306.

PassMark G3D Mark

1,204

Rank #1,291
Faster than 57.9% of 2,658 GPUs
18 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 16 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 31.7% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 3 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 26.9% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 4 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 7.8% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 9 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 32.3% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 780 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 40.2% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the AMD Radeon R9 M270X averages DirectX 9 16 fps, DirectX 10 3 fps, DirectX 11 4 fps, DirectX 12 9 fps and GPU Compute 780 ops/s, across 18 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

Theoretical throughput

FP32 (single precision) 0.992 TFLOPS calculatedcalculated from shaders x boost clock (MHz) x 2 / 1e6 = 640 x 775 x 2 / 1e6

FP32 (single precision) (0.992 TFLOPS) is calculated by Feex from stored specifications, not stated by AMD.

As stated by PassMark

Category Mobile

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Max memory 4 GB

Core clock 725 MHz

Memory clock 1125 MHz

DirectX 11.2

OpenGL 4.3

First benchmarked 2015-02-07

Samples 18

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the AMD Radeon R9 M270X states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 4 GB of memory, a core clock of 725 MHz, DirectX 11.2 and OpenGL 4.3, first benchmarked on 2015-02-07. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Shader configuration

Shading units 640

Compute units 10

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) Not recorded

Render output units (ROPs) Not recorded

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The AMD Radeon R9 M270X has 640 shading units and 10 compute units.

The AMD Radeon R9 M270X does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the AMD Radeon R9 M270X.

Clock speeds

Base clock Not recorded

Boost clock 775 MHz

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The AMD Radeon R9 M270X boosts to 775 MHz.

Memory

Size 4 GB

Type GDDR5

Bus width 128-bit

Bandwidth 72.0 GB/s

The AMD Radeon R9 M270X is equipped with 4 GB of GDDR5 memory, uses a 128-bit memory bus and delivers 72.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Board and power

The AMD Radeon R9 M270X it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) Not recorded

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Market

Launched May 1, 2014

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series Radeon

The AMD Radeon R9 M270X was released on May 1, 2014.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 1,204

PassMark G2D 306

Rank #1,291

Samples 18

Graphics and compute APIs

The AMD Radeon R9 M270X supports DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.4.

DirectX 11

OpenGL 4.4

CUDA is an NVIDIA technology and does not apply to the AMD Radeon R9 M270X. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the AMD Radeon R9 M270X. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the AMD Radeon R9 M270X.

Features

The AMD Radeon R9 M270X has 2 supported features recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Platform

Supported: Radeon Dual Graphics

Support for pairing an AMD APU's integrated graphics with a compatible Radeon GPU.
Supported: Switchable graphics

Support for switching between integrated and dedicated graphics to balance power use and performance.

Not listed (2)

No source Feex holds states whether the AMD Radeon R9 M270X supports Resizable BAR and AMD SmartShift. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The AMD Radeon R9 M270X supports Radeon Dual Graphics and Switchable graphics under Platform.

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the AMD Radeon R9 M270X have?

The AMD Radeon R9 M270X has 4 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit bus. Its memory bandwidth is 72.0 GB/s.

How fast is the AMD Radeon R9 M270X?

The AMD Radeon R9 M270X scores 1,204 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 57.9% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #1,291. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 9 fps.