AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M5725

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

AMD FirePro M5725

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM FirePro M5725 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 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro M5725 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +362%

1.997 TFLOPS

FirePro M5725

0.432 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

FirePro M5725

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jan 2009

Crystal System

Generation

FirePro Mobility

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

4

-

1024

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

432.0 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

80W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

M96

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

M96 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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