AMD Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

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AMD Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1021MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (100.4GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition +271%

1.568 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition

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Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Jun 2008

Gem System

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1021 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1568 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

100.4GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

4

768

Shading Units

320

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.34 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.56 GPixel/s

49.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.568 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

422.4 GFLOPS

98.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.48 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Strato

GPU Name

M88

Strato PRO

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

55W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

4.1

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