Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and GeForce FX 5500 - video card comparison
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
GeForce FX 5500
Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
Amethyst
NV34 B1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2014
March 2004
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
850 MHz
270 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,482 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
5,000 million
45 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
-
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
108.8
1.080
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5448 MHz
332 MHz
Memory bandwidth
174.3 GB/s
5.312 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (12_0)
9.0a
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
6.3
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A