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).

 

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 23550
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 446 447
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