AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760A

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 760A 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 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (975MHz vs 657MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 64.13GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +97%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 760A

1.009 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 760A

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Mar 2014

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

628 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

657 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

64.13GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.51 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.05 GTexel/s

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1009 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.05 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

55W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GK106

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N14E-GL-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

221 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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