Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs GeForce 9700M GTS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
2000 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9700M GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
+2831%
3723
GeForce 9700M GTS
127
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
Jul 2008
Crystal System
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
2048
Shading Units
48
128
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.09 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.480 GPixel/s
116.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.72 GTexel/s
3.723 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.723 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
127.2 GFLOPS
232.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
60W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Amethyst
GPU Name
G94
Amethyst XT
GPU Variant
NB9E-GS
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
5 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
366 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.3
Shader Model
4.0