AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition and ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO 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).

AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 39% higher core clock speed: 834 MHz vs 600 MHz
9.7x more texture fill rate: 93.41 GTexel / s vs 9.6 GTexel / s
5.6x more pipelines: 1792 vs 320
7.8x better floating-point performance: 2,989 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
3.4x more memory clock speed: 5460 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Around 88% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 745 vs 397
8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5024 vs 628

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 12 December 2007
Core clock speed	834 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	93.41 GTexel / s vs 9.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1792 vs 320
Floating-point performance	2,989 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	5460 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	745 vs 397
PassMark - G3D Mark	5024 vs 628

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 200 Watt vs 250 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

745

397

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5024

628

Name	AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition	ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
PassMark - G2D Mark	745	397
PassMark - G3D Mark	5024	628
Geekbench - OpenCL	23585
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

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition	ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	Grenada	R600
Design	AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch date	5 May 2015	12 December 2007
Place in performance rating	422	379
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	834 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,989 gflops	384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	1792	320
Texture fill rate	93.41 GTexel / s	9.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	200 Watt
Transistor count	6,200 million	720 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 8-pin
Length		241 mm
API support
DirectX	12	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	174.7 GB / s	118.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	5460 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR4
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
TrueAudio
ZeroCore