AMD Radeon R9 M385 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

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AMD Radeon R9 M385

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M385 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M385 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M385 +954%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GS

0.17 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M385

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GeForce 9800M GS

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Nov 2008

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

896

Shading Units

64

56

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.480 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.96 GTexel/s

-

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

169.6 GFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

60W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Strato

GPU Name

G94

Strato XT

GPU Variant

NB9E-GS1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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