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AMD Radeon R9 M390X vs AMD Radeon R9 M365X vs AMD Radeon R9 M385

AMD Radeon R9 M390X

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The AMD Radeon R9 M390X is a mobile high-end graphics card for laptops. It is most likely based on the same chip as the AMD Radeon R9 M295X in the iMac 5K Late 2014. That means it should be based on the third generation of GCN (desktop Tonga chip). The amount of shader cores is identical but the core clock is reduced by 15% (from 850 MHz to 723 MHz) and the memory is also clocked slower (5448 MHz vs 5000 MHz).

The performance should be a bit below the M295X. Compared to the competition, the R9-M390X should be positioned somewhere between the GeForce GTX 965M and 970M and therefore suitable for high-end games in 1080p resolution and high detail settings.

The card was first mentioned by Alienware on their twitter account and should feature 4GB VRAM according to the tweet.

The power consumption should be rated around 100 Watt TDP and therefore suited only for large and bulky laptops (like the Alienware M17x it was announced in).

AMD Radeon R9 M365X

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The AMD Radeon R9 M365X is a mid range DirectX 12 compatible graphics card for laptops. It is based on the GCN architecture and manufactured in 28nm. The older Radeon R9 M270 and the current Radeon R9 M370X are very similar (see for gaming benchmarks).

The R9 M365X uses 640 shader cores (10 compute units) clocked at 925 MHz (max.) and supports according to the AMD website 4 GB GDDR5 at 1125 MHz (4 GHz effective). The only used version in a Toshiba laptop so far however only uses 2 GB GDDR5.

AMD Radeon R9 M385

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The AMD Radeon R9 M385 is a mid-range notebook graphics card for laptops. It features a GCN (Graphics Core Next) based architecture and is manufactured in 28nm. Up to now only a GFXBench 3.1 OpenGL benchmarks leaked.

The most likely a bit slower Radeon R9 M380 features 12 compute cores clocked at 1 GHz and a GDDR5 memory controller. According to the naming, the performance should be quite similar to it.

AMD Radeon R9 M390XAMD Radeon R9 M365XAMD Radeon R9 M385
Radeon R9 M300 Series
Radeon R9 M395X 2048 @ 0.91 GHz256 Bit @ 5460 MHz
Radeon R9 M390X 2048 @ 0.72 GHz256 Bit @ 5000 MHz
Radeon R9 M395 1792 @ 0.83 GHz256 Bit @ 5460 MHz
Radeon R9 M390 1024 @ 0.96 GHz256 Bit @ 5460 MHz
Radeon R9 M385X 896 @ 1.1 GHz128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon R9 M385128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon R9 M380 768 @ 1 GHz128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon R9 M370X 640 @ 0.8 GHz128 Bit @ 4500 MHz
Radeon R9 M365X 640 @ 0.9 - 0.93 GHz128 Bit @ 4500 MHz
Radeon R9 M375 640 @ 1.02 GHz128 Bit @ 2200 MHz
Radeon R9 M395X 2048 @ 0.91 GHz256 Bit @ 5460 MHz
Radeon R9 M390X 2048 @ 0.72 GHz256 Bit @ 5000 MHz
Radeon R9 M395 1792 @ 0.83 GHz256 Bit @ 5460 MHz
Radeon R9 M390 1024 @ 0.96 GHz256 Bit @ 5460 MHz
Radeon R9 M385X 896 @ 1.1 GHz128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon R9 M385128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon R9 M380 768 @ 1 GHz128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon R9 M370X 640 @ 0.8 GHz128 Bit @ 4500 MHz
Radeon R9 M365X 640 @ 0.9 - 0.93 GHz128 Bit @ 4500 MHz
Radeon R9 M375 640 @ 1.02 GHz128 Bit @ 2200 MHz
Radeon R9 M395X 2048 @ 0.91 GHz256 Bit @ 5460 MHz
Radeon R9 M390X 2048 @ 0.72 GHz256 Bit @ 5000 MHz
Radeon R9 M395 1792 @ 0.83 GHz256 Bit @ 5460 MHz
Radeon R9 M390 1024 @ 0.96 GHz256 Bit @ 5460 MHz
Radeon R9 M385X 896 @ 1.1 GHz128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon R9 M385128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon R9 M380 768 @ 1 GHz128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon R9 M370X 640 @ 0.8 GHz128 Bit @ 4500 MHz
Radeon R9 M365X 640 @ 0.9 - 0.93 GHz128 Bit @ 4500 MHz
Radeon R9 M375 640 @ 1.02 GHz128 Bit @ 2200 MHz
CodenameAmethyst (XT) / Tonga
ArchitectureGCN 3GCNGCN
Pipelines2048 - unified640 - unified
Core Speed723 (Boost) MHz900 - 925 (Boost) MHz
Memory Speed5000 MHz4500 MHz6000 MHz
Memory Bus Width256 Bit128 Bit128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR5GDDR5GDDR5
Max. Amount of Memory4 GB4 GB4 GB
Shared Memorynonono
APIDirectX 12 (FL 12_0), Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.3 / VulkanDirectX 12, Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.4DirectX 11.1, Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.3
Power Consumption125 Watt
Transistors5 Billion1.5 Billion
technology28 nm28 nm28 nm
FeaturesDirectX 12, OpenCL 1.2, OpenGL 4.3, Vulkan, MantleMantle, PCIe 3.0, Zero Core, PowerTuneDirectCompute 5.0, OpenCL
Notebook Sizelargemedium sizedmedium sized
Date of Announcement09.06.2015 06.05.2015 16.06.2015

Benchmarks

3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score
9082 Points (13%)
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU
9448 Points (8%)

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