Radeon HD 8860 OEM vs R9 M295X Mac Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking383not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.67no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameAmethystCuracao
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date23 November 2014 (10 years ago)8 January 2013 (11 years 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 cores20481280
Core clock speed850 MHz925 MHz
Number of transistors5,000 million2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate108.874.00
Floating-point processing power3.482 TFLOPS2.368 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs12880

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 3.0 x16
Lengthno data241 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1362 MHz1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth174.3 GB/s179.2 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 outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.35.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 November 2014 8 January 2013
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 175 Watt

R9 M295X Mac Edition has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

HD 8860 OEM, on the other hand, has 42.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and Radeon HD 8860 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition is a notebook card while Radeon HD 8860 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
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