Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking563not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.76no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGK104Tropo
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date8 November 2013 (11 years ago)5 May 2015 (9 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 cores1536640
Core clock speed771 MHz775 MHz
Boost clock speed797 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)122 Wattno data
Texture fill rate102.032.00
Floating-point processing power2.448 TFLOPS1.024 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs12840

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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16

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 amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/s72 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 November 2013 5 May 2015
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB

GTX 780M Mac Edition has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

R9 M370X Mac Edition, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition and Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition
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