AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Apr 2014
Nov 2014
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Crystal System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1365 MHz
Base Clock
-
850 MHz
Boost Clock
-
975 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
256bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
174.7GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
44
16
Shading Units
2816
1024
TMUs
176
64
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
65.15 GPixel/s
31.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
179.2 GTexel/s
62.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.733 TFLOPS
1.997 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.7 GFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Vesuvius
Pitcairn
GPU Variant
Vesuvius XT(215-0852022)
Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
212 mm²

Board Design

TDP
500W
80W
Suggested PSU
900 W
-
Outputs
1x DVI4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
None

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