AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i 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

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 85% higher core clock speed: 834 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
Around 95% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 715 vs 367
38.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4916 vs 129

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	834 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	715 vs 367
PassMark - G3D Mark	4916 vs 129

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

6.3x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 250 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

715

367

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4916

129

Name	AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
PassMark - G2D Mark	715	367
PassMark - G3D Mark	4916	129
Geekbench - OpenCL	23546
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	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Tesla
Code name	Grenada	MCP79MX
Design	AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch date	5 May 2015	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	436	439
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	834 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,989 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1792
Texture fill rate	93.41 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	6,200 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCI
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	174.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit
Memory clock speed	5460 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
TrueAudio
ZeroCore