AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 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 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 18% higher texture fill rate: 108.8 GTexel / s vs 92.2 billion / sec
  • 4.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 2x 240
  • 2.9x better floating-point performance: 3,482 gflops vs 2x 596.2 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • Around 16% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 289 Watt
  • 2.3x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1792 MB
  • 5.5x more memory clock speed: 5448 MHz vs 999 MHz
  • 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 7037 vs 3107
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 November 2014 vs 8 January 2009
Texture fill rate 108.8 GTexel / s vs 92.2 billion / sec
Pipelines 2048 vs 2x 240
Floating-point performance 3,482 gflops vs 2x 596.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt vs 289 Watt
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1792 MB
Memory clock speed 5448 MHz vs 999 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7037 vs 3107

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

  • Around 46% higher core clock speed: 1242 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • Around 21% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3443 vs 2852
  • 74.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3443 vs 46
  • 24.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3107 vs 125.7
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1242 MHz vs 850 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3443 vs 2852
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3443 vs 46
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3107 vs 125.7

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2852
3443
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
46
3443
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
7037
3107
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
125.7
3107
Name AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295
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 3443
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 46 3443
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7037 3107
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 125.7 3107
PassMark - G3D Mark 1206
PassMark - G2D Mark 103
Geekbench - OpenCL 21048

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Tesla 2.0
Code name Amethyst GT200B
Launch date 23 November 2014 8 January 2009
Place in performance rating 927 930
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $500
Price now $159.99
Value for money (0-100) 8.53

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz 1242 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,482 gflops 2x 596.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 2048 2x 240
Texture fill rate 108.8 GTexel / s 92.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 289 Watt
Transistor count 5,000 million 1,400 million
CUDA cores 480
CUDA cores per GPU 240
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, Two Dual Link DVIHDMI
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Length 10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
SLI options Quad
Supplementary power connectors 6-pin & 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1792 MB
Memory bandwidth 174.3 GB / s 223.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 896 Bit
Memory clock speed 5448 MHz 999 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Memory interface width per GPU 448 Bit
Standard memory config per GPU 896 MB

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
High Dynamic-Range Lighting (HDRR) 128bit
SLI