Radeon Pro 450 vs R9 M295X Mac Edition

Place in performance ranking	358	521
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	4.27
Architecture	GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)	Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name	Amethyst	Polaris 11
Market segment	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Release date	23 November 2014 (9 years ago)	27 October 2016 (7 years ago)
Current price	no data	$183

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2048	640
Core clock speed	850 MHz	800 MHz
Number of transistors	5,000 million	3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	75 Watt
Texture fill rate	108.8	32.00
Floating-point performance	3,482 gflops	1,024 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and Radeon Pro 450 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). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	no data	large
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x8
Width	MXM Module	no data

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	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5448 MHz	5080 MHz
Memory bandwidth	174.3 GB/s	81.28 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

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

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	6.3	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131

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	55−60 +83.3%	30 −83.3%
4K	35−40 +84.2%	19 −84.2%

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	13.42	7.05
Recency	23 November 2014	27 October 2016
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	75 Watt