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.

AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

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	937
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