GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile vs Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated92
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data25.49
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGrenadaGA104
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date5 May 2015 (9 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 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 cores17926144
Core clock speed834 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1545 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate93.41296.6
Floating-point processing power2.989 TFLOPS18.98 TFLOPS
ROPs3296
TMUs112192
Tensor Coresno data192
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1365 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth174.7 GB/s448.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 May 2015 12 January 2021
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 115 Watt

RTX 3080 Mobile has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 117.4% lower power consumption.

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AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile
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