AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GS 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 6 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock975MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
992 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
+2794%
1.997 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600M GS
0.069 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2014
Release Date
Jun 2008
Crystal System
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
-
975 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
1024
Shading Units
32
64
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.440 GPixel/s
62.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.880 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.997 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
68.80 GFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
80W
TDP
20W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
G96C
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
NB9P-GE2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
