Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs Radeon R9 M470X

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
Radeon R9 M470X
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 15 May 2016
Radeon R9 M470X
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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 M470X

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 M395X Mac Edition

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 M395X Mac EditionRadeon R9 M470X
GPU NameAmethyst (Amethyst XT)vsStrato (Strato XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size366 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors5,000 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders2048vs896
Compute Units32vs14
Core clock909 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs128vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 M395X Mac EditionRadeon R9 M470X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1365 MHz
5460 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 M395X Mac EditionRadeon R9 M470X
TDP250 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs15 May 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
    29.09 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 M470X
    17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
    116.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 M470X
    61.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
    174.70 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 M470X
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
    3723.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 M470X
    1971.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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