AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4200

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and ATI Radeon HD 4200 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: 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 70% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 51.2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 40
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
  • 14.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 7037 vs 485
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 November 2014 vs 10 September 2009
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 500 MHz
Pipelines 2048 vs 40
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7037 vs 485

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4200

  • 3.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 485 vs 125.7
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 485 vs 125.7

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4200

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
7037
485
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
125.7
485
Name AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition ATI Radeon HD 4200
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 71.778
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1285.141
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.839
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 75.347
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 321.767
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2852
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 46
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7037 485
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 125.7 485
PassMark - G2D Mark 372
PassMark - G3D Mark 112

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition ATI Radeon HD 4200

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 RV6xx
Code name Amethyst RV620
Launch date 23 November 2014 10 September 2009
Place in performance rating 898 901
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,482 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 2048 40
Texture fill rate 108.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt
Transistor count 5,000 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0)

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 174.3 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5448 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory yes

Technologies

HDCP support
PCI-E 2.0