AMD Radeon HD 8730M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 8730M AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M 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 R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (975MHz vs 700MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +271%

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

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Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Nov 2014

Solar System

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

700 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

16

384

Shading Units

1024

24

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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