AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 735M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GT 735M

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

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

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