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AMD Radeon R9 M375

AMD Radeon R9 M375

The AMD Radeon R9 M375 is a dedicated higher mid-range graphics card for laptops. It is still unclear if the M375 is based on a new chip (Tonga derivative with full DirectX 12 and Vulkan support) or the old Cape Verde chip from 2012. The core is clocked at relatively high 1015 MHz, however, the bottleneck may be the use of slow DDR3 graphics memory (128-bit).

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 R9-M375 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 R9 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 M375 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 R9 M300 Series

Radeon R9 M395X compare 2048 @ 0.91 GHz256 Bit @ 5460 MHz
Radeon R9 M390X compare 2048 @ 0.72 GHz256 Bit @ 5000 MHz
Radeon R9 M395 compare 1792 @ 0.83 GHz256 Bit @ 5460 MHz
Radeon R9 M390 compare 1024 @ 0.96 GHz256 Bit @ 5460 MHz
Radeon R9 M385X compare 896 @ 1.1 GHz128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon R9 M385 compare128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon R9 M380 compare 768 @ 1 GHz128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon R9 M370X compare 640 @ 0.8 GHz128 Bit @ 4500 MHz
Radeon R9 M365X compare 640 @ 0.9 - 0.93 GHz128 Bit @ 4500 MHz
Radeon R9 M375 640 @ 1.02 GHz128 Bit @ 2200 MHz
ArchitectureGCN
Pipelines640 - unified
Core Speed1015 MHz
Memory Speed2200 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit
Memory TypeDDR3
Max. Amount of Memory4 GB
Shared Memoryno
APIDirectX 12 (FL 11_1), OpenGL 4.3
technology28 nm
FeaturesDirectX 12 (FL 11_1), Mantle, OpenGL 4.3, OpenCL 1.2, Vulkan?, PowerTune, Enduro, App Acceleration
Notebook Sizemedium sized
Date of Announcement07.05.2015
Link to Manufacturer Pagewww.amd.com

Benchmarks

3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total +
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX +
3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 +
Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) +
Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit +
Cinebench R15
Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit +
Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit +
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
red legend - Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.

F1 2018

F1 2018

2018
low 1280x720
30  fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
20  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
16  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
12  fps    + Compare
» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.
low 1280x720
40.3  fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
16.5  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
14.9  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
13.8  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Far Cry 5

Far Cry 5

2018
low 1280x720
30  fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
15  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
13  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
12  fps    + Compare
» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.
Fortnite

Fortnite

2018
low 1280x720
45.5  fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
22.1  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
15.5  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
low 1280x720
24  fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
13  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
12  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
10  fps    + Compare
» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.
Destiny 2

Destiny 2

2017
low 1280x720
36.4  fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
20.2  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
18  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
16.3  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
FIFA 18

FIFA 18

2017
low 1280x720
108.5  fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
79.7  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
61.2  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
58.2  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
low 1280x720
39  fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
16.7  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
15.5  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
13.3  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
low 1280x720
62  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
58.4  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
54.8  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
34.4  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
low 1280x720
95.6  fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
40  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
25.1  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
Overwatch

Overwatch

2016
low 1280x720
76.8  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
65.4  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
29.6  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
14.3  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
low 1280x720
47.6  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
28.8  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
12.4  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
9.4  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
low 1024x768
89.4  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
58.5  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
31.1  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
26.2  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
low 1366x768
89.8  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
65.4  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
34.6  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
23.7  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..