AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 315M

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AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 315M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 315M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2032 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 315M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition +8828%

3.482 TFLOPS

GeForce 315M

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

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GeForce 315M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 300M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1362 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

174.3GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

16

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.424 GPixel/s

108.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.848 GTexel/s

3.482 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.482 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.78 GFLOPS

217.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GT218

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

N11M-GE

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

14W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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