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AMD Radeon R9 M390X vs AMD Radeon R9 M395

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 M395

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The AMD Radeon R9 M395 is a high-end mobile graphics card that can be found in the 2015 iMac 5K 27-inch. It offers 1792 shader cores (28 compute cores) clocked at 834 MHz. The 2 GB GDDR5 dedicated graphics memory is connected with a 256 Bit bus at 1365 (= 5460 effective) MHz.

The performance should be between the older Radeon R9 M295X and the Desktop Radeon R7 370. Therefore, demanding Windows games like Fallout 4 or Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 should run in maximum details at 1920x1080 (with no headroom).

AMD Radeon R9 M390XAMD Radeon R9 M395
Radeon R9 M300 Series
Radeon R9 M395X compare 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 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 compare 640 @ 1.02 GHz128 Bit @ 2200 MHz
Radeon R9 M395X compare 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 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 compare 640 @ 1.02 GHz128 Bit @ 2200 MHz
CodenameAmethyst (XT) / Tonga
ArchitectureGCN 3GCN
Pipelines2048 - unified1792 - unified
Core Speed723 (Boost) MHz834 MHz
Memory Speed5000 MHz5460 MHz
Memory Bus Width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR5GDDR5
Max. Amount of Memory4 GB2048 MB
Shared Memorynono
APIDirectX 12 (FL 12_0), Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.3 / VulkanDirectX 12 (FL 12_0), Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.3 / Vulkan
Power Consumption125 Watt
Transistors5 Billion5 Billion
technology28 nm28 nm
FeaturesDirectX 12, OpenCL 1.2, OpenGL 4.3, Vulkan, MantleDirectX 12, OpenCL 1.2, OpenGL 4.3, Vulkan, Mantle
Notebook Sizelargelarge
Date of Announcement09.06.2015 09.06.2015

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - 3DMark 11 + Fire Strike + Time Spy - Radeon R9 M395
3.1 pt (9%)
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Score
16305 Points (17%)
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Graphics
38490 Points (10%)
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Score
5920 Points (10%)
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Graphics
6819 Points (8%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Graphics
203122 Points (24%)
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score
9082 Points (13%)
8305 Points (12%)
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU
9448 Points (8%)
8656 Points (7%)

Average Benchmarks AMD Radeon R9 M390X → 100% n=2

Average Benchmarks AMD Radeon R9 M395 → 92% n=2

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Redaktion, 2017-09- 8 (Update: 2023-07- 1)