AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce G205M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce G205M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 72% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 17x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1565 vs 92
  • Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 357 vs 294
  • 3.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3326 vs 989
  • 3.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3326 vs 989
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 May 2015 vs 8 January 2009
Core clock speed 775 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1565 vs 92
PassMark - G2D Mark 357 vs 294
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3326 vs 989
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3326 vs 989

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce G205M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1565
92
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
357
294
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3326
989
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3326
989
Name AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce G205M
PassMark - G3D Mark 1565 92
PassMark - G2D Mark 357 294
Geekbench - OpenCL 9614
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 25.151
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 516.994
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.321
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 32.932
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 111.138
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2862
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1667
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3326 989
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2862
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1667
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3326 989

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce G205M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Tesla
Code name Tropo MCP79MX
Launch date 5 May 2015 8 January 2009
Place in performance rating 1018 1020
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 800 MHz
Core clock speed 775 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,024 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 640
Texture fill rate 32 GTexel / s
Transistor count 1,500 million 210 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 72 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5