Radeon Pro 580 vs 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 rated274
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data9.20
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameGrenadaPolaris 20
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date5 May 2015 (9 years ago)5 June 2017 (7 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 cores17922304
Core clock speed834 MHz1100 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1200 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rate93.41172.8
Floating-point processing power2.989 TFLOPS5.53 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs112144

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
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1365 MHz1695 MHz
Memory bandwidth174.7 GB/s217.0 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.36.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 May 2015 5 June 2017
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 150 Watt

Pro 580 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition and Radeon Pro 580. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition is a notebook graphics card while Radeon Pro 580 is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
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