AMD Radeon R5 M330 vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R5 M330 AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1030MHz vs 975MHz)

Lower TDP (18W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M330

0.659 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +203%

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M330

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Nov 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

975 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

16

320

Shading Units

1024

20

TMUs

64

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

31.20 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Exo

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Exo PRO

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

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

80W

-

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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