NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 160M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 160M

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X +1100%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 160M

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 100M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Neptune

N10E-GS1

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

240 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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