AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

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AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon E9173 PCIe 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 E9173 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1219MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E9173 PCIe

1.248 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X +84%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon E9173 PCIe

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Jan 2014

Embedded

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1219 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

20

512

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

39.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

1248 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1248 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

78.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Neptune

E9170

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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