NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile 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 GTX 1070 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 69% (1645MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile +237%

6.738 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1442 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1645 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

105.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

210.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

105.3 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.738 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

210.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

80W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Pitcairn

N17E-G2-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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