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AMD Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon E9550 MXM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E9550 MXM 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1266MHz vs 1021MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 100.4GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition
1.568 TFLOPS
Radeon E9550 MXM +272%
5.834 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

May 2015
Release Date
Sep 2016
Gem System
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1021 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1568 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz

Memory

2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
100.4GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s

Render Config

12
Compute Units
36
-
-
-
768
Shading Units
2304
48
TMUs
144
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

16.34 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
49.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.834 TFLOPS
1.568 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.834 TFLOPS
98.02 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown
TDP
95W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

Strato
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Strato PRO
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
GCN 2.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.2.170
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
6.5
Shader Model
6.4
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