AMD Radeon R7 M380

The AMD Radeon R7 M380 is a dedicated graphics card for laptops. It is based on the a 28nm GCN core with 10 compute units and a 128 Bit DDR3 memory bus. Despite the similar name, the R9 M380 offers a better performance due to 2 more compute units and GDDR5 graphics memory. The R7 M380 is similar to the R9 M375 (which is slightly higher clocked) and therefore is position in the mid-range in 2015.
Performance
If slow DDR3 graphics memory is used, the performance should be somewhere close to a Radeon R9 M270 (see for gaming benchmarks). Therefore, demanding games are running in low to medium details.
The 640 shaders can be used with OpenCL 1.2 for general-purpose calculations (as 10 compute units).
Features
Features of the R7-M380 include video decoding for MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, and Flash directly by the AMD GPU. Multi-View Codec (MVC) and MPEG-4 part 2 (DivX, xVid) HD videos are compatible as well.
The R7 series also supports automatic graphics switching between the integrated GPU and discrete GPU. Called Enduro, the technology supersedes AMD's Dynamic Switchable Graphics and is similar to Nvidia's Optimus. Furthermore, the M380 can directly support multiple monitors using Eyefinity Technology if Enduro is disabled.
Other features include ZeroCore to reduce the power consumption when the display is turned off and Power Gating to power down areas of the chip that are not used.
The integrated HD audio processor is able to transmit HD Audio (TrueHD or DTS Master Audio) over HDMI and DisplayPort (e.g., for Blu-Ray videos). Additionally, it allows audio output simultaneously and in parallel to multiple devices with the new Discrete Digital Multipoint Audio (DDMA) feature.
Radeon R7 M300 Series
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Architecture | GCN | ||||||||||||
Pipelines | 640 - unified | ||||||||||||
Core Speed | 915 MHz | ||||||||||||
Memory Speed | 2000 MHz | ||||||||||||
Memory Bus Width | 128 Bit | ||||||||||||
Memory Type | DDR3 | ||||||||||||
Max. Amount of Memory | 4 GB | ||||||||||||
Shared Memory | no | ||||||||||||
API | DirectX 12 (FL 11_1), OpenGL 4.3 | ||||||||||||
technology | 28 nm | ||||||||||||
Features | DirectX 12, Mantle, OpenGL 4.3, OpenCL 1.2, Vulkan?, PowerTune, Enduro, App Acceleration | ||||||||||||
Notebook Size | medium sized | ||||||||||||
Date of Announcement | 07.05.2015 | ||||||||||||
Link to Manufacturer Page | www.amd.com |
Benchmarks

* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
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