Radeon PRO W7700 vs R9 M295X Mac Edition

Place in the ranking	382	57
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	58.21
Architecture	GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)	RDNA 3.0 (2023−2024)
GPU code name	Amethyst	Navi 32
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	23 November 2014 (9 years ago)	13 November 2023 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$999

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	3072
Core clock speed	850 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	no data	2600 MHz
Number of transistors	5,000 million	28,100 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	190 Watt
Texture fill rate	108.8	499.2
Floating-point processing power	3.482 gflops	no data

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	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	no data	241 mm
Width	MXM Module	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 8-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 type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5448 MHz	18 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	174.3 GB/s	576.0 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 Connectors

No outputs

4x DisplayPort 2.1

API compatibility

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

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

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	50.50
Recency	23 November 2014	13 November 2023
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	190 Watt

PRO W7700 has a 277.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 460% more advanced lithography process, and 31.6% lower power consumption.

The Radeon PRO W7700 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 desktop card while Radeon PRO W7700 is a workstation one.

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