AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440 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 NVS 440

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 1 month(s) later
3.3x more core clock speed: 834 MHz vs 250 MHz
4.2x more texture fill rate: 93.41 GTexel / s vs 2x 2 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2x 128 MB
10.9x more memory clock speed: 5460 MHz vs 500 MHz
2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 720 vs 358
129.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4911 vs 38

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 9 March 2009
Core clock speed	834 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	93.41 GTexel / s vs 2x 2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2x 128 MB
Memory clock speed	5460 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	720 vs 358
PassMark - G3D Mark	4911 vs 38

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440

8.1x lower typical power consumption: 31 Watt vs 250 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	31 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

720

358

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4911

Name	AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440
PassMark - G2D Mark	720	358
PassMark - G3D Mark	4911	38
Geekbench - OpenCL	23538
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 NVS 440
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Curie
Code name	Grenada	NV43 A4
Design	AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch date	5 May 2015	9 March 2009
Place in performance rating	446	449
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$96.99
Price now		$93.61
Value for money (0-100)		0.53
Technical info
Core clock speed	834 MHz	250 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,989 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	1792
Texture fill rate	93.41 GTexel / s	2x 2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	31 Watt
Transistor count	6,200 million	146 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DMS-59
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Length		187 mm
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2x 128 MB
Memory bandwidth	174.7 GB / s	2x 8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2x 128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5460 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
TrueAudio
ZeroCore