AMD FirePro M3100 vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro M3100 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
AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 39% (975MHz vs 700MHz)
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M3100
0.537 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
+271%
1.997 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Nov 2014
FirePro Mobile
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
650 MHz
Base Clock
850 MHz
700 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1365 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
Render Config
6
Compute Units
16
-
-
-
384
Shading Units
1024
24
TMUs
64
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
16.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
62.40 GTexel/s
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-
-
537.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.997 TFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
80W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Mars
GPU Name
Pitcairn
Mars M2 LP
(216-0842009)
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.95 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
77 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1 (1.2)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2.170
Vulkan
1.2
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-
-
6.5 (5.1)
Shader Model
5.1
