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Radeon R9 M295X vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

The Radeon R9 M295X features clock speeds of 750 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which has a core clock speed of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1650 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 4GB 120 Watts
Radeon R9 M295X 125 Watts
Difference: 5 Watts (4%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 470 4GB should theoretically be a small bit faster than the Radeon R9 M295X in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB 211200 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M295X 176000 MB/sec
Difference: 35200 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 4GB will be a lot (more or less 23%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 M295X. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB 118528 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M295X 96000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 22528 (23%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 470 4GB is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB 29632 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M295X 24000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5632 (23%)

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.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R9 M295X Radeon RX 470 4GB
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year 2014 August 2016
Code Name Unknown Polaris 10
Memory 4096 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 750 MHz 926 MHz
Memory Speed 5500 MHz 6600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 125 watts 120 watts
Bandwidth 176000 MB/sec 211200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 96000 Mtexels/sec 118528 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 24000 Mpixels/sec 29632 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 14 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon R9 M295X

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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