AMD FirePro S4000X vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

AMD FirePro S4000X

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro S4000X 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 FirePro S4000X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (975MHz vs 775MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S4000X

0.992 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +101%

1.997 TFLOPS

FirePro S4000X

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Nov 2014

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

775 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

16

-

640

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Venus XT

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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