GeForce 830M vs Radeon R9 M295X

GeForce 830M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 12 Mar 2014
GeForce 830M
Radeon R9 M295X
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 23 Nov 2014
Radeon R9 M295X

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 830M

217 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 M295X .
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 M295X

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 M295X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 M295X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 830MRadeon R9 M295X
GPU NameGM108 ()vsAmethyst (Amethyst XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs5,000 million
Shaders256vs2048
Compute Units2vs32
Core clock1082 MHzvs723 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs16vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce 830MRadeon R9 M295X
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 830MRadeon R9 M295X
TDP33 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2014vs23 Nov 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 830M
    8.66 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 M295X
    23.14 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 830M
    17.31 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 M295X
    92.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 830M
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 M295X
    160.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 830M
    554.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 M295X
    2961.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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