Radeon E9260 MXM vs Radeon R9 M270X Rev. 2

Radeon E9260 MXM Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE Release date: 27 Sep 2016

Radeon R9 M270X Rev. 2 Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE Release date: 5 Feb 2015

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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon E9260 MXM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute

Supports FreeSync

Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Supports TrueAudio

Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 M270X Rev. 2

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute

Supports FreeSync

Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Supports TrueAudio

Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

HWBench recommends Radeon E9260 MXM

Based on theoretical specifications.

Specifications

Core Configuration

	Radeon E9260 MXM		Radeon R9 M270X Rev. 2
GPU Name	Baffin (Baffin PRO)	vs	Saturn (Saturn PRO)
Fab Process	14 nm	vs	28 nm
Die Size	123 mmÂ²	vs	160 mmÂ²
Transistors	3,000 million	vs	2,080 million
Shaders	896	vs	768
Compute Units	14	vs	12
Core clock	1090 MHz	vs	900 MHz
ROPs	16	vs	16
TMUs	48	vs	48

Memory Configuration

	Radeon E9260 MXM		Radeon R9 M270X Rev. 2
Memory Type	GDDR5	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	128 bit	vs	128 bit
Memory Speed	1750 MHz 7000 MHz effective	vs	1375 MHz 5500 MHz effective
Memory Size	4096 Mb	vs	2048 Mb

Additional details

	Radeon E9260 MXM		Radeon R9 M270X Rev. 2
TDP	50 watts	vs	0 watts
Release Date	27 Sep 2016	vs	5 Feb 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

Radeon E9260 MXM
19.20 GP/s
Radeon R9 M270X Rev. 2
16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

Radeon E9260 MXM
57.60 GT/s
Radeon R9 M270X Rev. 2
48.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

Radeon E9260 MXM
112.00 GB/s
Radeon R9 M270X Rev. 2
88.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

Radeon E9260 MXM
2150.40 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 M270X Rev. 2
1536.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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