AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

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AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250M 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 5 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (28W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition +1350%

3.482 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250M

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTS 250M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jun 2009

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1362 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.3GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

96

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

108.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

3.482 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.482 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

217.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GT215

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

N10E-GE-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

28W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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