Radeon R9 M385X vs Radeon E8950

Radeon R9 M385X
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 M385X
Radeon E8950
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 29 Sep 2015
Radeon E8950

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 M385X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon E8950

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon E8950

HWBench recommends Radeon E8950

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 M385XRadeon E8950
GPU NameStrato (Strato XT)vsAmethyst (E8950)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size160 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors2,080 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders896vs2048
Compute Units14vs32
Core clock1000 MHzvs735 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs56vs128

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 M385XRadeon E8950
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 M385XRadeon E8950
TDP0 wattsvs95 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs29 Sep 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 M385X
    17.60 GP/s
  • Radeon E8950
    23.52 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 M385X
    61.60 GT/s
  • Radeon E8950
    94.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 M385X
    76.80 GB/s
  • Radeon E8950
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 M385X
    1971.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon E8950
    3010.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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