AMD FirePro S9300 X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro S9300 X2 and AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

AMD FirePro S9300 X2

AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro S9300 X2

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
Around 2% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 834 MHz
23.7x more texture fill rate: 2x 217.6 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 93.41 GTexel / s
4.6x more pipelines: 2x 4096 vs 1792
4.7x better floating-point performance: 2x 6,963 gflops vs 2,989 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 2x 4 GB vs 4 GB
Around 19% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 27971 vs 23577

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	31 March 2016 vs 5 May 2015
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 834 MHz
Texture fill rate	2x 217.6 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 93.41 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 4096 vs 1792
Floating-point performance	2x 6,963 gflops vs 2,989 gflops
Maximum memory size	2x 4 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	27971 vs 23577

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 300 Watt
5.5x more memory clock speed: 5460 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed	5460 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro S9300 X2
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

27971

23577

Name	AMD FirePro S9300 X2	AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
Geekbench - OpenCL	27971	23577
PassMark - G2D Mark		745
PassMark - G3D Mark		5024
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		56.272
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		778.867
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.051
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		65.535
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		336.811

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD FirePro S9300 X2	AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	Capsaicin	Grenada
Launch date	31 March 2016	5 May 2015
Launch price (MSRP)	$5,999
Place in performance rating	852	422
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	834 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 6,963 gflops	2,989 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2x 4096	1792
Texture fill rate	2x 217.6 GTexel / s billion / sec	93.41 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	8,900 million	6,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	2x 512.0 GB / s	174.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	2x 4096 Bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	5460 MHz
Memory type	HBM	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
TrueAudio
ZeroCore