Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 580M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking659not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.77no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGF114Strato
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date28 June 2011 (14 years ago)5 May 2015 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384768
Core clock speed620 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1021 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Wattno data
Texture fill rate39.6849.01
Floating-point processing power0.9523 TFLOPS1.568 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs6448
L1 Cache512 KB192 KB
L2 Cache512 KB256 KB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1568 MHz
Memory bandwidth96.0 GB/s100.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray+-
3D Gaming+-
Optimus+-

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 API12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.3
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 June 2011 5 May 2015
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

R9 M380 Mac Edition has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

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