AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon E4690 MXM
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon E4690 MXM 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 5 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
1728 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon E4690 MXM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
+806%
3.482 TFLOPS
Radeon E4690 MXM
0.384 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2014
Release Date
Jun 2009
Crystal System
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1362 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
174.3GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
320
128
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
108.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
3.482 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.482 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
217.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
30W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
Amethyst
GPU Name
RV730
Amethyst XT
GPU Variant
RV730 XT E4690
(215-0729055)
GCN 3.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
5 billion
Transistors
0.514 billion
366 mm²
Die Size
146 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
6.3
Shader Model
4.1
