AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 A260

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AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition AMD Radeon R7 A260

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 A260 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 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 A260 's Advantages

Boost Clock980MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition +363%

3.482 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 A260

0.752 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R7 A260

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jan 2014

Crystal System

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

980 MHz

1362 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.3GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

6

2048

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.840 GPixel/s

108.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

23.52 GTexel/s

3.482 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.482 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

752.6 GFLOPS

217.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Topaz

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

Topaz XT (216-0858020)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5

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