AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition 's Advantages

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

3.723 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX +5%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Jun 2016

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1664

128

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.09 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

116.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

3.723 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.723 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

232.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GM204

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

148W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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