Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

Place in the ranking	510	383
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.70	no data
Power efficiency	2.69	3.67
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code name	GF110	Amethyst
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	29 November 2011 (13 years ago)	23 November 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$289	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	448	2048
Core clock speed	732 MHz	850 MHz
Number of transistors	3,000 million	5,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	210 Watt	250 Watt
Texture fill rate	40.99	108.8
Floating-point processing power	1.312 TFLOPS	3.482 TFLOPS
ROPs	40	32
TMUs	56	128

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	4 GB
Memory bus width	320 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	950 MHz	1362 MHz
Memory bandwidth	152.0 GB/s	174.3 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	No outputs
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	5.1	6.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	2.0	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	8.23	13.39
Recency	29 November 2011	23 November 2014
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	4 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	210 Watt	250 Watt

GTX 560 Ti 448 has 19% lower power consumption.

R9 M295X Mac Edition, on the other hand, has a 62.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, a 220% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is a desktop card while Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition is a notebook one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.