Radeon R9 390X 8G vs Radeon R9 M380

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M380, which comes with clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 390X 8G should be 300% quicker than the Radeon R9 M380 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		384000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M380		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 288000 (300%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 390X 8G will be quite a bit (about 362%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M380. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		184800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M380		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 144800 (362%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 390X 8G is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M380		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 51200 (320%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.