Radeon R9 M275 vs Radeon E8870
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon R9 M275 |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon E8870 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon E8870
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon R9 M275 | | Radeon E8870 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Venus (Venus XTX) | vs | Saturn (Saturn PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 123 mm² | vs | 160 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,500 million | vs | 2,080 million |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 768 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 12 |
| Core clock | 900 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon R9 M275 | | Radeon E8870 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon R9 M275 | | Radeon E8870 | |
|---|
| TDP | 0 watts | vs | 75 watts |
| Release Date | 28 Jan 2014 | vs | 29 Sep 2015 |
Radeon R9 M275
14.80 GP/s
Radeon E8870
16.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon R9 M275
37.00 GT/s
Radeon E8870
48.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon R9 M275
64.00 GB/s
Radeon E8870
96.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon R9 M275
1184.00 GFLOPs
Radeon E8870
1536.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better