AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition sales 23 November 2014. This is GCN 3.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 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 MXM Module 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 22.39 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Mining NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

150

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Code name

Amethyst

Type

Desktop

Release date

23 November 2014

Technical specs

Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core 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

2048

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Core clock speed

850 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Transistor count

5,000 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

108.8

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

3,482 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

5448 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

174.3 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API support

APIs supported by Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

12.0 (12_0)

OpenGL

4.5

of 4.6

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

322 Mh/s

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

114.34 %

AMD Radeon RX 560

111.61 %

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

101.25 %

AMD Radeon E8950

100 %

AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

97.81 %

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

94.33 %

AMD Radeon R9 270

91.69 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 950, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our rating.