AMD Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 8550M

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AMD Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 8550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M 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 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1021MHz vs 850MHz)

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (100.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition +188%

1.568 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 8550M

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Jul 2014

Gem System

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

650 MHz

1021 MHz

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1568 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

100.4GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

5

-

768

Shading Units

320

48

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.34 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

49.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

1.568 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

98.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Strato

GPU Name

Sun

Strato PRO

GPU Variant

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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