AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 560

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition and NVIDIA Quadro FX 560 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 Quadro FX 560

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 834 MHz vs 350 MHz
22.2x more texture fill rate: 93.41 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 128 MB
4.6x more memory clock speed: 5460 MHz vs 1200 MHz
2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 720 vs 360
43.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4911 vs 114

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 20 April 2006
Core clock speed	834 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	93.41 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	5460 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	720 vs 360
PassMark - G3D Mark	4911 vs 114

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 560

8.3x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 250 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 560

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

720

360

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4911

114

Name	AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro FX 560
PassMark - G2D Mark	720	360
PassMark - G3D Mark	4911	114
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

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro FX 560
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Curie
Code name	Grenada	G73
Design	AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch date	5 May 2015	20 April 2006
Place in performance rating	445	446
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$299
Price now		$150.25
Value for money (0-100)		0.98
Technical info
Core clock speed	834 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,989 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1792
Texture fill rate	93.41 GTexel / s	4.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	6,200 million	177 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	None
Length		198 mm
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	174.7 GB / s	19.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5460 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
TrueAudio
ZeroCore