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).

AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 8830M

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	23559
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	445	442
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