AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition and ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition 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 X1950 CrossFire Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 28% higher core clock speed: 834 MHz vs 650 MHz
9x more texture fill rate: 93.41 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
2.7x more memory clock speed: 5460 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Around 60% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 745 vs 466
33.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5024 vs 151

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 10 September 2006
Core clock speed	834 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	93.41 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	5460 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	745 vs 466
PassMark - G3D Mark	5024 vs 151

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

745

466

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5024

151

Name	AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G2D Mark	745	466
PassMark - G3D Mark	5024	151
Geekbench - OpenCL	23577
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 X1950 CrossFire Edition
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	R500
Code name	Grenada	R580+
Design	AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch date	5 May 2015	10 September 2006
Place in performance rating	422	328
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	834 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,989 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1792
Texture fill rate	93.41 GTexel / s	10.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt
Transistor count	6,200 million	384 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 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	174.7 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5460 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR4
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
TrueAudio
ZeroCore