AMD Radeon R9 M385X vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M385X and AMD Radeon HD 7970M 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M385X

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
• Around 18% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 850 MHz
• 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
• 2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 49760 vs 22410
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 3339
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 3339

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970M

• Around 10% higher texture fill rate: 68 GTexel / s vs 61.6 GTexel / s
• Around 43% higher pipelines: 1280 vs 896
• Around 10% better floating-point performance: 2,176 gflops vs 1,971 gflops
• 3.2x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1500 MHz
• Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 5094 vs 4079
• Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 5094 vs 4079
• Around 90% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 506 vs 267
• Around 77% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3529 vs 1994

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M385X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970M

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4079 5094
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4079 5094
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	267 506
PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1994 3529
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	49760 22410
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3707 3692
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3707 3692
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 3339
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 3339

Compare specifications (specs)