| Attribute | Radeon R9 M295X Mac × | Radeon HD 6850 X2 × |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | ||
| Release year (year) | 2014 | 2011 |
| Reference card | - | AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 800 MHz 4 GB |
| GPU brand | AMD | AMD |
| GPU name | Amethyst | Barts PRO |
| Market | Laptop | Desktop |
| Clock speed (MHz) | 850 | 800 |
| Is dual GPU | - | + |
| Model | Radeon R9 M295X Mac | Radeon HD 6850 X2 |
| Memory | ||
| Memory (MB) | 4,096 | 4,096 |
| Memory bandwidth (GB/s) | 174.3 | 268.8 |
| Memory bus (bit) | 256 | 512 |
| Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory clock speed (MHz) | 1,362 | 1,050 |
| Effective memory clock speed (MHz) | 5,448 | 4,200 |
| Noise and power | ||
| TDP (W) | 250 | 254 |
| Raw performance | ||
| Pixel rate (GPixel/s) | 27.2 | 51.2 |
| Render output processors | 32 | 64 |
| Texture mapping units | 128 | 96 |
| Shading units | 2,048 | 1,920 |
| Floating-point performance (GFLOPS) | 3,482 | 3,072 |
| Compute units | 32 | 24 |
| Texture rate (GTexel/s) | 108.8 | 76.8 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Particle simulation (mInteraction/s) | 409.67 | - |
| T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) (frames/s) | 5.84 | - |
| Video composition (frames/s) | 75.35 | - |
| PassMark | 5,101 | 2,534 |
| Face detection (mPixels/s) | 71.78 | - |
| T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) | 3356.8 | - |
| Bitcoin mining (mHash/s) | 321.77 | - |
| Ocean surface simulation (frames/s) | 1285.14 | - |