AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 335M 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 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

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

952 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (28W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +1180%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 335M

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GT 335M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jan 2010

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 300M

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

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

1024

Shading Units

72

64

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

80W

TDP

28W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GT215

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N11P-GS1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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