AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 580X

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580X 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 580X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1200MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (218.9GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 580X +140%

5.53 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580X

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jan 2014

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1710 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

218.9GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

20

-

2304

Shading Units

1280

144

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

172.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

5.530 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.530 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

345.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

100W

-

2x HDMI 2.0b

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Neptune

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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