AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA NVS 5200M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM NVS 5200M 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 2 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
1952 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA NVS 5200M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
+1451%
3.723 TFLOPS
NVS 5200M
0.24 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
Jun 2012
Crystal System
Generation
NVS Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
2048
Shading Units
96
128
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
29.09 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.500 GPixel/s
116.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.00 GTexel/s
3.723 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.723 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
240.0 GFLOPS
232.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
20.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
25W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Amethyst
GPU Name
GF117
Amethyst XT
GPU Variant
N13M-NS1
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
366 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
6.3
Shader Model
5.1
