NVIDIA GeForce G103M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce G103M

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce G103M 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 G103M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce G103M

0.026 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +7580%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce G103M

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Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce 100M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

1

SM Count

-

8

Shading Units

1024

4

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

16 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.560 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

2.560 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

25.60 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

14W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G98

GPU Name

Pitcairn

N10M-GE2-S

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

86 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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