Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs GeForce GTS 260M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M 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 5 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1952 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (38W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
+1310%
3723
GeForce GTS 260M
264
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
Jun 2009
Crystal System
Generation
GeForce 200M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
2048
Shading Units
96
128
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.09 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
116.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
3.723 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.723 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
264.0 GFLOPS
232.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
38W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Amethyst
GPU Name
GT215
Amethyst XT
GPU Variant
N10E-GS
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
366 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
6.3
Shader Model
4.1