Radeon R9 M270X vs Radeon R7 M440

Radeon R9 M270X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 21 Mar 2014
Radeon R9 M270X
Radeon R7 M440
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 15 May 2016
Radeon R7 M440

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 M270X

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 M440

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 M270X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 M270X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 M270XRadeon R7 M440
GPU NameVenus (Venus XT)vsJet (Jet PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs77 mm²
Transistors1,500 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders640vs320
Compute Units10vs5
Core clock725 MHzvs780 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs40vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 M270XRadeon R7 M440
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 M270XRadeon R7 M440
TDP0 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date21 Mar 2014vs15 May 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 M270X
    12.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 M440
    6.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 M270X
    31.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 M440
    17.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 M270X
    64.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 M440
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 M270X
    992.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 M440
    547.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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