NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 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 RTX 4070 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 74% (1695MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile +682%

15.62 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

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Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

4608

Shading Units

1024

144

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

81.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

244.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

15.62 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.62 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

244.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD106

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GN21-X6

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

190 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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