Radeon R5 M230 vs Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R5 M230 's Advantages
Boost Clock855MHz
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
1728 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R5 M230
390
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
+792%
3482
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Nov 2014
Gem System
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
825 MHz
Base Clock
-
855 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1362 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
174.3GB/s
Render Config
5
Compute Units
32
320
Shading Units
2048
20
TMUs
128
8
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.880 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
12.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
3.482 TFLOPS
390.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.482 TFLOPS
24.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
217.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
250W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
Jet
GPU Name
Amethyst
Jet S3 ULT
GPU Variant
Amethyst XT
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.69 billion
Transistors
5 billion
56 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1 (1.2)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2.170
Vulkan
1.2
6.5 (5.1)
Shader Model
6.3
