AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800M GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
1984 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
+2226%
3.723 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800M GTS
0.16 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
Nov 2007
Crystal System
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-HE
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
2048
Shading Units
64
128
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
29.09 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.000 GPixel/s
116.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.00 GTexel/s
3.723 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.723 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
160.0 GFLOPS
232.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
50W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Amethyst
GPU Name
G92
Amethyst XT
GPU Variant
NB8E-GT-A2
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
