Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs Radeon E8950
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon E8950 's Advantages
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)
Lower TDP (95W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
3723
Radeon E8950
+10%
4096
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
Sep 2015
Crystal System
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
735 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
32
2048
Shading Units
2048
128
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.09 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
116.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
3.723 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.096 TFLOPS
3.723 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
232.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
256.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
95W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Amethyst
GPU Name
Amethyst
Amethyst XT
GPU Variant
E8950
GCN 3.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5 billion
Transistors
5 billion
366 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.3
Shader Model
6.3
