AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 930M

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 930M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce 930M 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

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (975MHz vs 941MHz)

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

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 930M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +176%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce 930M

0.723 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 930M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Mar 2015

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

928 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

941 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

384

64

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.528 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.58 GTexel/s

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

722.7 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.58 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GM108

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N16S-GM

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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