AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M

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AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 880M 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 1 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M 's Advantages

Boost Clock993MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (122W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition +22%

3.723 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 880M

3.05 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 880M

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Mar 2014

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

954 MHz

-

Boost Clock

993 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1536

128

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.09 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.78 GPixel/s

116.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

127.1 GTexel/s

3.723 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.723 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.050 TFLOPS

232.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

127.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GK104

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

N15E-GX-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

122W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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