NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M 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 GTX 280M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X +516%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 200M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-IV

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

950 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

128

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.360 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

37.44 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

374.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Neptune

N10E-GTX

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

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

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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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