Product Compare
AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | May 2015 | Jan 2013 |
| Generation | Crystal System | Sea Islands |
| Type | Mobile | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1365 MHz | 1250 MHz |
| Base Clock | 850 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 925 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 4GB | 3GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 384bit |
| Bandwidth | 174.7GB/s | 240.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 32 | 28 |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 1792 |
| TMUs | 128 | 112 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 768 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 29.09 GPixel/s | 29.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 116.4 GTexel/s | 103.6 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 3.723 TFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 3.723 TFLOPS | 3.315 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 232.7 GFLOPS | 828.8 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Amethyst | Tahiti |
| GPU Variant | Amethyst XT | Tahiti PRO(215-0821056) |
| Architecture | GCN 3.0 | GCN 1.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 5 billion | 4.313 billion |
| Die Size | 366 mm² | 352 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 250W | 200W |
| Outputs | No outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | None | 2x 6-pin |
| Suggested PSU | 550 W | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | 12 (11_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Shader Model | 6.3 | 5.1 |