AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
1728 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
+1658%
2.989 TFLOPS
GeForce 9800M GS
0.17 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
Nov 2008
Crystal System
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
1792
Shading Units
64
112
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
26.69 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.480 GPixel/s
93.41 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.96 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.989 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
169.6 GFLOPS
373.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
60W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Amethyst
GPU Name
G94
Amethyst PRO
(216-0872004)
GPU Variant
NB9E-GS1
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
5 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
366 mm²
Die Size
240 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
