AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 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

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile

0.659 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +203%

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

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Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Nov 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

16

-

320

Shading Units

1024

20

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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