AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1139MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +36%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

1.458 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jan 2018

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1139 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

5

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.22 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

45.56 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

22.78 GFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1458 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

45.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GP107

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N17P-G0-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

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Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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