AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

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AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand 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 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand 's Advantages

Boost Clock850MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition +540%

3.482 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

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Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

May 2014

Crystal System

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1362 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

174.3GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

5

-

2048

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

108.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

3.482 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.482 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

217.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Sun

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

Sun LE

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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