AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 735M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 735M 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 1 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock975MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 735M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (33W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
+351%
1.997 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 735M
0.442 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2014
Release Date
Apr 2013
Crystal System
Generation
GeForce 700M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
-
975 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
384
64
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.600 GPixel/s
62.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
18.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.997 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
441.6 GFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
18.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
33W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
GK208
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
N14M-LP
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Kepler 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
1.02 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
87 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.5
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
