AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 930A
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce 930A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 930A 's Advantages
Boost Clock941MHz
Lower TDP (33W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
+381%
3.482 TFLOPS
GeForce 930A
0.723 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2014
Release Date
Mar 2015
Crystal System
Generation
GeForce 900A
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
928 MHz
-
Boost Clock
941 MHz
1362 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
174.3GB/s
Bandwidth
16.02GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
384
128
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.528 GPixel/s
108.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
22.58 GTexel/s
3.482 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.482 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
722.7 GFLOPS
217.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
22.58 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
33W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Amethyst
GPU Name
GM108
Amethyst XT
GPU Variant
-
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Maxwell
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5 billion
Transistors
Unknown
366 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.0
6.3
Shader Model
5.1
