AMD Radeon 530 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

VS

AMD Radeon 530 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 530 Mobile and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 530 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1024MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 530 Mobile

0.786 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X +193%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon 530 Mobile

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1024 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

20

-

384

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.192 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

24.58 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

786.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

786.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

49.15 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Weston

GPU Name

Neptune

Weston PRO (216-0864032)

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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