AMD Radeon R9 M390X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M390X

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390X 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 M390X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M390X +1641%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GS

0.17 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M390X

VS

GeForce 9800M GS

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Nov 2008

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

2048

Shading Units

64

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.480 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.96 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

169.6 GFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

G94

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

NB9E-GS1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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