Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs PRO W7600

Place in the ranking	128	381
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	70.09	no data
Power efficiency	19.78	3.74
Architecture	RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)	GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code name	Navi 33	Amethyst
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	3 August 2023 (1 year ago)	23 November 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$599	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	2048	2048
Core clock speed	no data	850 MHz
Boost clock speed	2440 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	13,300 million	5,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt	250 Watt
Texture fill rate	312.3	108.8
Floating-point processing power	no data	3.482 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	32
TMUs	128	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 4.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	241 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 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	GDDR6	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	18 GB/s	1362 MHz
Memory bandwidth	288.0 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

4x DisplayPort 2.1

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	6.7	6.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.3	1.2.131

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	36.88	13.39
Recency	3 August 2023	23 November 2014
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Chip lithography	6 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt	250 Watt

PRO W7600 has a 175.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 366.7% more advanced lithography process, and 92.3% lower power consumption.

The Radeon PRO W7600 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon PRO W7600 is a workstation 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.