Radeon R9 M385 vs RX 5300 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated611
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameNavi 14Strato
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date28 May 2020 (4 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 cores768896
Core clock speed1375 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed1645 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 million2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)135 Wattno data
Texture fill rate78.9656.00
Floating-point processing power2.527 TFLOPS1.792 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs4856

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 sizeno datamedium sized
Bus supportno dataPCIe 3.0
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 amount3 GB4 GB
Memory bus width96 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth84 GB/s76.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
Eyefinity-+
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

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

FreeSync-+
HD3D-+
PowerTune-+
DualGraphics-+
TrueAudio-+
ZeroCore-+
Switchable graphics-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)DirectX® 12
Shader Model6.56.3
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL2.0Not Listed
Vulkan1.2.131-
Mantle-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 May 2020 5 May 2015
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 28 nm

RX 5300 OEM has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

R9 M385, on the other hand, has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5300 OEM and Radeon R9 M385. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5300 OEM is a desktop card while Radeon R9 M385 is a notebook one.


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