NVIDIA GeForce 930M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 930M AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 930M 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

NVIDIA GeForce 930M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (975MHz vs 941MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 930M

0.723 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +176%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce 930M

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

928 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

941 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

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

384

Shading Units

1024

24

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.528 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

22.58 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

722.7 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

22.58 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Pitcairn

N16S-GM

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

Board Design

33W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

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