NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 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 5060 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1455MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (45W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile
+384%
9.684 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
1.997 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2025
Release Date
Nov 2014
GeForce 50 Mobile
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
952 MHz
Base Clock
850 MHz
1455 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1365 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
26
SM Count
-
3328
Shading Units
1024
104
TMUs
64
48
ROPs
32
104
Tensor Cores
-
26
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
69.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
151.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
62.40 GTexel/s
9.684 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.684 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.997 TFLOPS
151.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
45W
TDP
80W
300 W
Suggested PSU
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GB206
GPU Name
Pitcairn
GB206
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
21.9 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
181 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.4
Vulkan
1.2
12.0
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
5.1
