NVIDIA GeForce MX150 vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX150

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX150 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 MX150 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 57% (1532MHz vs 975MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX150

1.177 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +69%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce MX150

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2017

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce MX

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1532 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

3

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

1024

24

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

36.77 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

18.38 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1177 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

36.77 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GP108-650-A1 (N17S-G1-A1)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

74 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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