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AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date May 2015 Dec 2010
Generation Crystal System Northern Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1365 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 174.7GB/s 160.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32 22
Shading Units 2048 1408
TMUs 128 88
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 29.09 GPixel/s 25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 116.4 GTexel/s 70.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 3.723 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 3.723 TFLOPS 2.253 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 232.7 GFLOPS 563.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Amethyst Cayman
GPU Variant Amethyst XT Cayman PRO(215-0807019)
Architecture GCN 3.0 TeraScale 3
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors 5 billion 2.64 billion
Die Size 366 mm² 389 mm²
Board Design
TDP 250W 200W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors None 2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU 550 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