Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 M295X vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2014 Jan 2013
Generation Crystal System Northern Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 1024MB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 160.0GB/s 134.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32 20
Shading Units 2048 1600
TMUs 128 80
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 23.14 GPixel/s 27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 92.54 GTexel/s 68.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 2.961 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 2.961 TFLOPS 2.720 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 185.1 GFLOPS 544.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Amethyst Cypress
GPU Variant Amethyst XT Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Architecture GCN 3.0 TeraScale 2
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors 5 billion 2.154 billion
Die Size 366 mm² 334 mm²
Board Design
TDP 250W 175W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors None 2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU 450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 2.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 N/A
Shader Model 6.3 5.0