AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M

AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition +81%

2.989 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

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Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

May 2015

Solar System

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

28

-

768

Shading Units

1792

48

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.69 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.41 GTexel/s

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1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.989 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

373.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

250W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Amethyst

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

Amethyst PRO (216-0872004)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

5 billion

160 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

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