RTX 5880 Ada Generation vs Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition with RTX 5880 Ada Generation, including specs and performance data.

R9 M295X Mac Edition
2014
4 GB GDDR5, 250 Watt
13.39

RTX 5880 Ada Generation outperforms R9 M295X Mac Edition by a whopping 570% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking3834
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.6721.58
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAmethystAD102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date23 November 2014 (10 years ago)5 January 2024 (less than a year ago)

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 cores204814080
Core clock speed850 MHz975 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2460 MHz
Number of transistors5,000 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt285 Watt
Texture fill rate108.81,082
Floating-point processing power3.482 TFLOPS69.27 TFLOPS
ROPs32176
TMUs128440
Tensor Coresno data440
Ray Tracing Coresno data110

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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB48 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1362 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth174.3 GB/s864.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputs4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.9

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 13.39 89.71
Recency 23 November 2014 5 January 2024
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 285 Watt

R9 M295X Mac Edition has 14% lower power consumption.

RTX 5880 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has a 570% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

The RTX 5880 Ada Generation is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition is a notebook card while RTX 5880 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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