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

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9650M GT 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 3 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 9650M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +2249%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce 9650M GT

0.085 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 9650M GT

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Aug 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

4.400 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

84.80 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

80W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G96C

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

NB9P-GT

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

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