AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 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 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1493MHz vs 975MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +4%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

1.911 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jan 2017

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

1354 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1493 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

5

1024

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.89 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.72 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

29.86 GFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.911 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.72 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GP107

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

-

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

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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