AMD Radeon R9 M470 vs AMD Radeon R7 A360

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 A360 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 A360 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1125MHz vs 1000MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470 +77%

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 A360

0.864 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470

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Radeon R7 A360

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

May 2015

Gem System

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1125 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

6

768

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.000 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

864.0 GFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

864.0 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

54.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Meso

Emerald PRO

GPU Variant

Meso XT (216-0864018)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5

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