AMD Radeon R5 M330 vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M330 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 R5 M330 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1030MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (18W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M330

0.659 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X +249%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M330

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Jan 2014

Crystal System

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

955 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1030 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

20

320

Shading Units

1280

20

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Exo

GPU Name

Neptune

Exo PRO

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

18W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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