AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS 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 4 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
2000 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
+2641%
3.482 TFLOPS
GeForce 9700M GTS
0.127 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2014
Release Date
Jul 2008
Crystal System
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1362 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
174.3GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
2048
Shading Units
48
128
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.480 GPixel/s
108.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.72 GTexel/s
3.482 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.482 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
127.2 GFLOPS
217.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
60W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
Amethyst
GPU Name
G94
Amethyst XT
GPU Variant
NB9E-GS
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
5 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
366 mm²
Die Size
240 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
