NVIDIA NVS 4200M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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NVIDIA NVS 4200M

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM NVS 4200M 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 NVS 4200M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

976 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 4200M

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +1180%

1.997 TFLOPS

NVS 4200M

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Nov 2014

NVS Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1024

8

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Pitcairn

N12P-NS1-S-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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