AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • 10.3x more texture fill rate: 108.8 GTexel / s vs 10.6 billion / sec
  • 14.2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 144
  • 10.2x better floating-point performance: 3,482 gflops vs 339.8 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 3 GB
  • 4.4x more memory clock speed: 5448 MHz vs 1250 MHz
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 7037 vs 3350
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 November 2014 vs 3 September 2010
Texture fill rate 108.8 GTexel / s vs 10.6 billion / sec
Pipelines 2048 vs 144
Floating-point performance 3,482 gflops vs 339.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 3 GB
Memory clock speed 5448 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7037 vs 3350

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M

  • Around 39% higher core clock speed: 1180 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • 7.1x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3274 vs 2852
  • 71.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3274 vs 46
  • 26.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3350 vs 125.7
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1180 MHz vs 850 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3274 vs 2852
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3274 vs 46
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350 vs 125.7

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2852
3274
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
46
3274
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
7037
3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
125.7
3350
Name AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M
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 3274
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 46 3274
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7037 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 125.7 3350
PassMark - G3D Mark 811
PassMark - G2D Mark 203
Geekbench - OpenCL 12379

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Fermi
Code name Amethyst GF106
Launch date 23 November 2014 3 September 2010
Place in performance rating 864 867
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz 1180 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,482 gflops 339.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 2048 144
Texture fill rate 108.8 GTexel / s 10.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 5,000 million 1,170 million
CUDA cores 144

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12 API
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
OpenCL 1.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 174.3 GB / s 60.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 5448 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI