AMD Radeon R9 380 vs AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 380 AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 380 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 235X OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 380 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1632 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (18W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 380 +1141%

3.476 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 235X OEM

0.28 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380

VS

Radeon R5 235X OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Dec 2013

Pirate Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

2

1792

Shading Units

160

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.500 GPixel/s

108.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.000 GTexel/s

3.476 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.476 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

280.0 GFLOPS

217.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Antigua

GPU Name

Caicos

Antigua PRO (215-0877000)

GPU Variant

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

18W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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