ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3470 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

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3470

0.054 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +3598%

1.997 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3470

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Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Nov 2014

M8x

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

6.400GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

16

-

40

Shading Units

1024

4

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.720 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

2.720 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

54.40 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

80W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

M82

GPU Name

Pitcairn

M82-ME XT (216-0707009)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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