AMD Radeon R9 M380 vs NVIDIA GeForce 810A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M380 and NVIDIA GeForce 810A 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 M380

NVIDIA GeForce 810A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M380

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
Around 16% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 775 MHz
3.9x more texture fill rate: 48 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 768 vs 192
5.2x better floating-point performance: 1,536 gflops vs 297.6 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
4.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2771 vs 655
Around 91% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 529 vs 277
6.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 12640 vs 1828

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 22 July 2014
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 775 MHz
Texture fill rate	48 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	768 vs 192
Floating-point performance	1,536 gflops vs 297.6 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2771 vs 655
PassMark - G2D Mark	529 vs 277
Geekbench - OpenCL	12640 vs 1828

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 810A

Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1500 MHz

Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M380
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 810A

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2771

655

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

529

277

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

12640

1828

Name	AMD Radeon R9 M380	NVIDIA GeForce 810A
PassMark - G3D Mark	2771	655
PassMark - G2D Mark	529	277
Geekbench - OpenCL	12640	1828
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	34.701
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	546.907
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.618
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	48.878
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	194.051
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3688
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	536
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2855
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3688
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	536
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2855

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 M380	NVIDIA GeForce 810A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Kepler 2.0
Code name	Strato	GK208
Design	AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch date	5 May 2015	22 July 2014
Place in performance rating	862	863
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	900 MHz	775 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,536 gflops	297.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	768	192
Texture fill rate	48 GTexel / s	12.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count	2,080 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 3.0 x8
Laptop size	medium sized
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	96 GB / s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DirectCompute 5.0
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
TrueAudio
ZeroCore