AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

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AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 480M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition +228%

1.962 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480M

0.598 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 480M

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

May 2010

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

11

1024

Shading Units

352

64

TMUs

44

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.66 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.350 GPixel/s

61.31 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.70 GTexel/s

-

1.962 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

598.4 GFLOPS

122.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GF100

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N11E-GTX-A3

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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