AMD Radeon R9 M395X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M395X and NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M395X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 34% higher core clock speed: 723 MHz vs 540 MHz
  • 21.4x more texture fill rate: 92.54 GTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
  • 256x more pipelines: 2048 vs 8
  • 142.4x better floating-point performance: 2,961 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 56% higher memory clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 63.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5195 vs 82
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 733 vs 344
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 May 2015 vs 1 June 2008
Core clock speed 723 MHz vs 540 MHz
Texture fill rate 92.54 GTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 8
Floating-point performance 2,961 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5195 vs 82
PassMark - G2D Mark 733 vs 344

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M395X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5195
82
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
733
344
Name AMD Radeon R9 M395X NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE
PassMark - G3D Mark 5195 82
PassMark - G2D Mark 733 344
Geekbench - OpenCL 27719
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 65.367
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 799.421
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.718
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 71.057
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 413.329
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7365
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2154
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7365
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2154
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3354

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 M395X NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Tesla
Code name Amethyst G98
Design AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch date 5 May 2015 1 June 2008
Place in performance rating 467 469
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 723 MHz 540 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,961 gflops 20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 2048 8
Texture fill rate 92.54 GTexel / s 4.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt
Transistor count 5,000 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12 10.0
Mantle
OpenCL Not Listed
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 160.0 GB / s 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
TrueAudio
ZeroCore