AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9650M 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 8 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

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

992 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +2396%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce 9650M GS

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 9650M GS

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Mar 2008

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 9M

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

-

SM Count

4

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.000 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G84

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS1-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

29W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

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