GeForce 930MX vs Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 930MX and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 930MX 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1020MHz vs 975MHz)
Lower TDP (17W vs 80W)
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 930MX
783
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
+155%
1997
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Nov 2014
GeForce 900M
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
952 MHz
Base Clock
850 MHz
1020 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1365 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
384
Shading Units
1024
24
TMUs
64
8
ROPs
32
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
8.160 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
24.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
62.40 GTexel/s
783.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.997 TFLOPS
24.48 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
17W
TDP
80W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM108
GPU Name
Pitcairn
N16S-GMR
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
Maxwell
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
2.8 billion
Unknown
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
5.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1