AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

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AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M 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 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

1936 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition +1030%

3.482 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 260M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Mar 2009

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1362 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

174.3GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

2048

Shading Units

112

128

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.800 GPixel/s

108.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.80 GTexel/s

3.482 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.482 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

308.0 GFLOPS

217.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

G92

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

N10E-GT

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

324 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

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