NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GTX 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 9800M GTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

912 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800M GTX

0.28 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +613%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GTX

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce 9M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

1024

56

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

28.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

280.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Pitcairn

NB9E-GTX

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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