AMD Radeon Pro 5500M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

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AMD Radeon Pro 5500M

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500M 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 Pro 5500M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 61% (1450MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5500M +93%

4.454 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500M

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Nov 2019

Release Date

Jan 2014

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1450 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

20

-

1536

Shading Units

1280

96

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

46.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

139.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

8.909 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.454 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

278.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Neptune

Navi 14 ULA

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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