AMD Radeon R9 M385X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

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AMD Radeon R9 M385X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M385X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M385X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1100MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M385X +427%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M385X

VS

GeForce GTX 280M

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Mar 2009

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-IV

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

896

Shading Units

128

56

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.360 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

374.5 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Strato

GPU Name

G92

Strato XT

GPU Variant

N10E-GTX

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

324 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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