AMD Cypress
VS
AMD Radeon R9 295X2
AMD Cypress
VS
AMD Radeon R9 295X2

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cypress and AMD Radeon R9 295X2. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
160
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Value for money (0-100)
19.19
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Cypress
Code name
Vesuvius
Desktop
Type
Desktop
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Release date
29 April 2014 (7 years ago)
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Launch price (MSRP)
$1,499
$12.72
Price now
$600 (0.4x MSRP)
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Design
reference
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Value for money
11.84
Cypress
GPU code name
Vesuvius
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cypress and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1600
Pipelines
2816
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Boost Clock
1018 MHz
2,154 million
Transistor count
6,200 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
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Texture fill rate
179.2
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Floating-point performance
2x 5,733 gflops
1600
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
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Boost clock speed
1018 MHz
2,154 million
Number of transistors
6,200 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
500 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cypress and AMD Radeon R9 295X2.

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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Length
307 mm
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Supplementary power connectors
2 x 8-pin
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Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cypress and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
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Memory bus width
512 Bit
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Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
640 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Cypress and AMD Radeon R9 295X2, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
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Eyefinity
1
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HDMI
+
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DisplayPort support
-

Technologies

The difference between AMD Cypress and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 is the additional functionality.

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AppAcceleration
-
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CrossFire
1
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FreeSync
1
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HD3D
+
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LiquidVR
1
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PowerTune
-
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TressFX
1
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TrueAudio
-
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ZeroCore
-
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DDMA audio
+
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Enduro
-
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UVD
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cypress and AMD Radeon R9 295X2. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
DirectX® 12
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
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Vulkan
+
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Shader Model
6.3
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OpenCL
2.0
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Mantle
-

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cypress and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cypress or AMD Radeon R9 295X2 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cypress
AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cypress
AMD Radeon R9 295X2
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cypress
AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cypress
AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cypress
AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cypress

Cheaper ($12.72 vs $600 (0.4x MSRP))

Advantages of AMD Radeon R9 295X2

38.75% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (2816 vs 1600)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

So, AMD Cypress or AMD Radeon R9 295X2?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon R9 295X2 .

AMD Cypress versus AMD Radeon R9 295X2 performance benchmarks comparison

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