AMD Radeon R9 M360 vs NVIDIA GeForce 800A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M360 and NVIDIA GeForce 800A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon R9 M360

NVIDIA GeForce 800A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M360

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 22% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 738 MHz
5x more texture fill rate: 29.6 GTexel / s vs 5.904 GTexel / s
10.7x more pipelines: 512 vs 48
6.7x better floating-point performance: 947.2 gflops vs 141.7 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
3.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1836 vs 477
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 451 vs 165

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 17 March 2014
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 738 MHz
Texture fill rate	29.6 GTexel / s vs 5.904 GTexel / s
Pipelines	512 vs 48
Floating-point performance	947.2 gflops vs 141.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1836 vs 477
PassMark - G2D Mark	451 vs 165

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 800A

Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1125 MHz

Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1125 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M360
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 800A

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1836

477

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

451

165

Name	AMD Radeon R9 M360	NVIDIA GeForce 800A
PassMark - G3D Mark	1836	477
PassMark - G2D Mark	451	165
Geekbench - OpenCL	8493
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	19.479
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	575.773
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.902
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	34.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	87.811
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2801
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1623
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2801
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1623
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3360

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 M360	NVIDIA GeForce 800A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Tropo	GF119
Design	AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch date	5 May 2015	17 March 2014
Place in performance rating	962	963
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	925 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	900 MHz	738 MHz
Floating-point performance	947.2 gflops	141.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	512	48
Texture fill rate	29.6 GTexel / s	5.904 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1,500 million	292 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		15 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Eyefinity
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_0)
Mantle
OpenCL	Not Listed
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB / s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore