AMD Radeon R9 M390X vs AMD Radeon R5 M230

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AMD Radeon R9 M390X

AMD Radeon R5 M230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M390X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 M230 's Advantages

Boost Clock855MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M390X +659%

2.961 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230

0.39 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M390X

VS

Radeon R5 M230

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Jan 2014

Crystal System

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

855 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

5

-

2048

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.880 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.20 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

390.4 GFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Jet

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

Jet S3 ULT

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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