AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M8900

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

AMD FirePro M8900

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 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 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +52%

1.997 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Apr 2011

Crystal System

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

12

-

1024

Shading Units

960

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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