AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 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)
256 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max Q 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1291MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
1.997 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max Q
1.983 TFLOPS
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
1152 MHz
975 MHz
Boost Clock
1291 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
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
1024
Shading Units
768
64
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
41.31 GPixel/s
62.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.97 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
30.98 GFLOPS
1.997 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.983 TFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
61.97 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
GP107
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
N17P-G1-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
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
