AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 M380

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R7 M380

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R7 M380 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (975MHz vs 915MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 M380 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +70%

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M380

1.171 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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Radeon R7 M380

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

May 2015

Crystal System

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

915 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

10

-

1024

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.64 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.60 GTexel/s

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1171 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

73.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Tropo

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Tropo XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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