AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

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AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M 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 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (12W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition +2352%

3.482 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520M

0.142 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GT 520M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 500M

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

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

174.3GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

2048

Shading Units

48

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.480 GPixel/s

108.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.920 GTexel/s

3.482 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.482 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

142.1 GFLOPS

217.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.84 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

12W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GF119

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

N12P-GV-B-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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