AMD Radeon R9 M385X vs ATI Radeon HD 4270

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M385X and ATI Radeon HD 4270 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M385X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 69% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 590 MHz
  • 22.4x more pipelines: 896 vs 40
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
  • 18.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1994 vs 110
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 May 2015 vs 1 May 2010
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 590 MHz
Pipelines 896 vs 40
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1994 vs 110

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4270

  • Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 303 vs 267
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 303 vs 267

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M385X
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4270

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
267
303
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1994
110
Name AMD Radeon R9 M385X ATI Radeon HD 4270
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4079
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4079
PassMark - G2D Mark 267 303
PassMark - G3D Mark 1994 110
Geekbench - OpenCL 49760
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3707
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3707
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 M385X ATI Radeon HD 4270

Essentials

Architecture GCN 2.0 RV6xx
Code name Strato RS880M
Design AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch date 5 May 2015 1 May 2010
Place in performance rating 567 564
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1100 MHz
Core clock speed 1000 MHz 590 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,971 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 896 40
Texture fill rate 61.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count 2,080 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs
Eyefinity

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12 10.1
Mantle
OpenCL Not Listed
OpenGL 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 0 yes

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
DirectCompute 5.0
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore
HDCP support
PCI-E 2.0