AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GS 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
Released 6 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
2016 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
+4946%
3.482 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600M GS
0.069 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2014
Release Date
Jun 2008
Crystal System
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1362 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
174.3GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
2048
Shading Units
32
128
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.440 GPixel/s
108.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.880 GTexel/s
3.482 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.482 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
68.80 GFLOPS
217.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
20W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
Amethyst
GPU Name
G96C
Amethyst XT
GPU Variant
NB9P-GE2
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
5 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
366 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.3
Shader Model
4.0
