Radeon 890M vs R9 M295X Mac Edition

Place in the ranking	384	256
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	3.70	100.00
Architecture	GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)	RDNA 3.5 (2024)
GPU code name	Amethyst	Strix Point
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	23 November 2014 (10 years ago)	15 July 2024 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2048	1024
Core clock speed	850 MHz	400 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	2900 MHz
Number of transistors	5,000 million	34,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	15 Watt
Texture fill rate	108.8	185.6
Floating-point processing power	3.482 TFLOPS	5.939 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	128	64
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	16

Form factor & compatibility

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

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	256 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1362 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	174.3 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.3	6.8
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	2.1
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

27−30

−63%

44
+63%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2

+0%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Battlefield 5	65−70 +0%	65−70 +0%
Counter-Strike 2	39 +0%	39 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	76 +0%	76 +0%
Forza Horizon 5	55−60 +0%	55−60 +0%
Metro Exodus	55−60 +0%	55−60 +0%
Red Dead Redemption 2	45−50 +0%	45−50 +0%
Valorant	85−90 +0%	85−90 +0%

Full HD
High Preset

Battlefield 5	65−70 +0%	65−70 +0%
Counter-Strike 2	30 +0%	30 +0%
Dota 2	55 +0%	55 +0%
Far Cry 5	49 +0%	49 +0%
Fortnite	110−120 +0%	110−120 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	64 +0%	64 +0%
Forza Horizon 5	55−60 +0%	55−60 +0%
Grand Theft Auto V	55 +0%	55 +0%
Metro Exodus	55−60 +0%	55−60 +0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	140−150 +0%	140−150 +0%
Red Dead Redemption 2	45−50 +0%	45−50 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	65−70 +0%	65−70 +0%
Valorant	85−90 +0%	85−90 +0%
World of Tanks	240−250 +0%	240−250 +0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	65−70 +0%	65−70 +0%
Counter-Strike 2	26 +0%	26 +0%
Far Cry 5	70−75 +0%	70−75 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	55 +0%	55 +0%
Forza Horizon 5	55−60 +0%	55−60 +0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	140−150 +0%	140−150 +0%
Valorant	85−90 +0%	85−90 +0%

1440p
High Preset

Dota 2	35−40 +0%	35−40 +0%
Grand Theft Auto V	35−40 +0%	35−40 +0%
Red Dead Redemption 2	20−22 +0%	20−22 +0%
World of Tanks	140−150 +0%	140−150 +0%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	40−45 +0%	40−45 +0%
Counter-Strike 2	18−20 +0%	18−20 +0%
Far Cry 5	60−65 +0%	60−65 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	55−60 +0%	55−60 +0%
Forza Horizon 5	35−40 +0%	35−40 +0%
Metro Exodus	50−55 +0%	50−55 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	30−35 +0%	30−35 +0%
Valorant	55−60 +0%	55−60 +0%

4K
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2	18−20 +0%	18−20 +0%
Dota 2	35−40 +0%	35−40 +0%
Grand Theft Auto V	35−40 +0%	35−40 +0%
Metro Exodus	16−18 +0%	16−18 +0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	65−70 +0%	65−70 +0%
Red Dead Redemption 2	14−16 +0%	14−16 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	35−40 +0%	35−40 +0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	21−24 +0%	21−24 +0%
Counter-Strike 2	18−20 +0%	18−20 +0%
Far Cry 5	27−30 +0%	27−30 +0%
Fortnite	24−27 +0%	24−27 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	30−35 +0%	30−35 +0%
Forza Horizon 5	18−20 +0%	18−20 +0%
Valorant	27−30 +0%	27−30 +0%

This is how R9 M295X Mac Edition and Radeon 890M compete in popular games:

Radeon 890M is 63% faster in 1080p

All in all, in popular games:

there's a draw in 55 tests (100%)

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	12.93	20.96
Recency	23 November 2014	15 July 2024
Chip lithography	28 nm	4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	15 Watt

Radeon 890M has a 62.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, a 600% more advanced lithography process, and 1566.7% lower power consumption.

The Radeon 890M is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.