AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M 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 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +674%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GT 540M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1024

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.688 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.75 GTexel/s

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

258.0 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

21.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GF108

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N12P-GS-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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