AMD Radeon R9 M295X vs AMD Radeon HD 8830M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8830M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M295X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8830M 's Advantages

Boost Clock625MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M295X +270%

2.961 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8830M

0.8 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M295X

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Radeon HD 8830M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Apr 2013

Crystal System

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

575 MHz

-

Boost Clock

625 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

10

2048

Shading Units

640

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Venus

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

Venus LE (216-0846030)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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