AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 8850M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and AMD Radeon HD 8850M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
• Around 48% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 575 MHz
• 4.4x more texture fill rate: 108.8 GTexel / s vs 25 GTexel / s
• 3.2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 640
• 4.4x better floating-point performance: 3,482 gflops vs 800.0 gflops
• 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
• 2.7x more memory clock speed: 5448 MHz vs 2000 MHz
• 3.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 71.778 vs 19.641
• 2.9x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1285.141 vs 435.842
• 2.9x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 5.839 vs 2.018
• 2.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 75.347 vs 31.637
• 3.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 321.767 vs 84.378
• Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2852 vs 2795
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 7037 vs 3323

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8850M

• 60.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2795 vs 46
• 26.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3323 vs 125.7

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8850M

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	71.778 19.641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1285.141 435.842
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5.839 2.018
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	75.347 31.637
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	321.767 84.378
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2852 2795
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	46 2795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	7037 3323
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	125.7 3323

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