Radeon R9 M385X and GeForce 8700M GT SLI - video card comparison

Radeon R9 M385X

GeForce 8700M GT SLI

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

G8x (2007−2008)

GPU code name

Strato-XT-M3

NB8E-SE

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

June 2015

September 2007

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Boost clock speed

1100 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1100 MHz

625 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,971 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

2,080 million

578 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

896

64

Power consumption (TDP)

-

58 Watt

Texture fill rate

61.60

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Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1500 MHz

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

76.8 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

-

Eyefinity

1

-

DirectX

DirectX® 12

10

Mantle

+

-

OpenCL

Not Listed

-

OpenGL

4.4

-

Shader Model

6.3

-

AppAcceleration

-

-

DualGraphics

1

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

+

-

PowerTune

+

-

Switchable graphics

1

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

+

-