AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 8830M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition and AMD Radeon HD 8830M 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 45% higher core clock speed: 834 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • 3.7x more texture fill rate: 93.41 GTexel / s vs 25 GTexel / s
  • 2.8x more pipelines: 1792 vs 640
  • 3.7x better floating-point performance: 2,989 gflops vs 800.0 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • 2.7x more memory clock speed: 5460 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Launch date 5 May 2015 vs 1 April 2013
Core clock speed 834 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate 93.41 GTexel / s vs 25 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1792 vs 640
Floating-point performance 2,989 gflops vs 800.0 gflops
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 5460 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8830M

Name AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 8830M
PassMark - G2D Mark 720
PassMark - G3D Mark 4911
Geekbench - OpenCL 23543
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 56.272
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 778.867
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.051
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 65.535
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 336.811
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2695
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2695
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5106
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5106
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 11302
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 11302

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 8830M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 2.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Grenada Venus
Design AMD Radeon R9 300 Series AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Launch date 5 May 2015 1 April 2013
Place in performance rating 446 443
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 834 MHz 575 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,989 gflops 800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1792 640
Texture fill rate 93.41 GTexel / s 25 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt
Transistor count 6,200 million 1,500 million
Boost clock speed 575 MHz
Compute units 10

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12 11
OpenGL 4.4 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 174.7 GB / s 32 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5460 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
TrueAudio
ZeroCore