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Radeon R9 M295X vs Radeon R9 M390X

Intro

The Radeon R9 M295X uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 750 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1375 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M390X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 723 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1250 MHz on this card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 M295X should in theory be just a bit superior to the Radeon R9 M390X overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X 176000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M390X 160000 MB/sec
Difference: 16000 (10%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M295X will be a small bit (more or less 4%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 M390X. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X 96000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M390X 92544 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 3456 (4%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M295X should be a small bit (more or less 4%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M390X, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X 24000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M390X 23136 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 864 (4%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R9 M295X Radeon R9 M390X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year 2014 2015
Code Name Unknown Tonga
Memory 4096 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 750 MHz 723 MHz
Memory Speed 5500 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 125 watts 125 watts
Bandwidth 176000 MB/sec 160000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 96000 Mtexels/sec 92544 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 24000 Mpixels/sec 23136 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2048 2048
Texture Mapping Units 128 128
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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