AMD Radeon 530 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon 530 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 530 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 530 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1024MHz vs 975MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 530 Mobile

0.786 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +154%

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon 530 Mobile

VS

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

730 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1024 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

16

-

384

Shading Units

1024

24

TMUs

64

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

31.20 GPixel/s

24.58 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

786.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

786.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

49.15 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Weston

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Weston PRO (216-0864032)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

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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