Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition vs Switch GPU

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Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGM20BGrenada
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date17 March 2017 (7 years ago)5 May 2015 (9 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 cores2561792
Core clock speed384 MHz834 MHz
Boost clock speed768 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,000 million6,200 million
Manufacturing process technology20 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate12.2993.41
Floating-point processing power0.3932 TFLOPS2.989 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs16112

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).

InterfaceIGPMXM-B (3.0)
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 typeDDR4GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1600 MHz1365 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s174.7 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_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA5.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 March 2017 5 May 2015
Chip lithography 20 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 250 Watt

Switch GPU has an age advantage of 1 year, a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 1566.7% lower power consumption.

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