AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

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AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800S 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 6 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition +1839%

3.723 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800S

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 9800S

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Jul 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

799 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

51.14GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

2048

Shading Units

64

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.09 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

116.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

3.723 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.723 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

232.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

G94

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

9800S

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

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