NVIDIA GeForce 315M vs AMD Radeon R9 M395X

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 315M and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 315M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon R9 M395X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2032 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 315M

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M395X +7492%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce 315M

VS

Radeon R9 M395X

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 300M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

16

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.424 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

4.848 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

38.78 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

Amethyst

N11M-GE

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

5 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

14W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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