AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
Summary
AMD started Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition sales 23 November 2014. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 3.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5.45 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 174.3 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 250 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 13.37% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 355 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 3.0 (2014−2017) | |
| GPU code name | Amethyst | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 23 November 2014 (9 years old) |
Technical specs
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2048 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 850 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 5,000 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 250 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 108.8 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 3,482 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | |
| Width | MXM Module |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 5448 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 174.3 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.3 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition is GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.
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