AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670MX 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 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 67.20GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +73%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670MX

1.154 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 670MX

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Oct 2012

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

67.20GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

960

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.02 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.08 GTexel/s

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1154 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

48.08 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GK104

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N13E-GR-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

294 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

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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