GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon R9 M295X

CORE STATE Amethyst

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 3.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970M

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1038 MHz

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

33,733

N/A

geekbench_opencl

22,719

18,991

geekbench_vulkan

29,171

18,516

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

472

passmark_directx_10

N/A

28

passmark_directx_11

N/A

42

passmark_directx_12

N/A

24

passmark_directx_9

N/A

99

passmark_g2d

N/A

381

passmark_g3d

N/A

5,704

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

2,289

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

R9 M295X

GTX 970M

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

1,280 -37.5%

Shaders

2,048

1,280 -37.5%

TMUs

128

80 -37.5%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

Compute Units

32

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

924 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1038 MHz

GPU Clock

723 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

6,144 +50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

160.0 GB/s

120.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

49.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.961 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

185.1 GFLOPS (1:16)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

2.961 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

250 W

—

TDP (W)

250

—

Power Connectors

None

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Amethyst

GM204

Generation

Gem System (R9 M200)

GeForce 900M

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,000 million

5,200 million

Die Size

366 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.7M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.5

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

MXM Module

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

MXM-B (3.0)

Other

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Solar System

GeForce 800M

Successor

Polaris Mobile

GeForce 10 Mobile

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