AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 570M 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 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

688 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +158%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 570M

0.773 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 570M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jun 2011

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

7

1024

Shading Units

336

64

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.050 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.20 GTexel/s

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

772.8 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GF114

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N12E-GT-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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