AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950A 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
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A 's Advantages
Boost Clock1124MHz
Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
+141%
3.482 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 950A
1.439 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2014
Release Date
Mar 2015
Crystal System
Generation
GeForce 900A
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
993 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1124 MHz
1362 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
174.3GB/s
Bandwidth
32.03GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
640
128
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.98 GPixel/s
108.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
44.96 GTexel/s
3.482 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.482 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1439 GFLOPS
217.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
44.96 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
Amethyst
GPU Name
GM107
Amethyst XT
GPU Variant
N16P-GT
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Maxwell
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5 billion
Transistors
1.87 billion
366 mm²
Die Size
148 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.0
6.3
Shader Model
5.1
