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Radeon R9 380 4G vs Radeon R9 M280X

Intro

The Radeon R9 380 4G comes with a clock speed of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1425 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1792 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M280X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1375 MHz on this specific card. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M280X 75 Watts
Radeon R9 380 4G 190 Watts
Difference: 115 Watts (153%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 380 4G should theoretically be much faster than the Radeon R9 M280X in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G 182400 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M280X 88000 MB/sec
Difference: 94400 (107%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G will be much (about 116%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M280X. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G 108640 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M280X 50400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 58240 (116%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G will be a lot (approximately 116%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M280X, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G 31040 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M280X 14400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 16640 (116%)

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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R9 380 4G Radeon R9 M280X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year June 2015 Feb 9 2015
Code Name Antigua PRO Saturn XT
Memory 4096 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 970 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 5700 MHz 5500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 190 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 182400 MB/sec 88000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 108640 Mtexels/sec 50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 31040 Mpixels/sec 14400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1792 896
Texture Mapping Units 112 56
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5000 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 ×16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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