AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 4.3x more core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 200 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 140 nm
  • 128x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 32 MB
  • 13.6x more memory clock speed: 5448 MHz vs 400 MHz
Launch date 23 November 2014 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 140 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed 5448 MHz vs 400 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

  • 7.4x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 108.8 GTexel / s
Texture fill rate 800 MTexel / s vs 108.8 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

Name AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200
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
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 125.7
PassMark - G2D Mark 190
PassMark - G3D Mark 8

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Rankine
Code name Amethyst NV34 B1
Launch date 23 November 2014 1 March 2003
Place in performance rating 938 936
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz 200 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,482 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 140 nm
Pipelines 2048
Texture fill rate 108.8 GTexel / s 800 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt
Transistor count 5,000 million 45 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) AGP 8x

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 9.0a
OpenGL 4.5 1.5 (2.1)

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 32 MB
Memory bandwidth 174.3 GB / s 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5448 MHz 400 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR