AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 770M 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 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (975MHz vs 797MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +30%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 770M

1.53 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 770M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

May 2013

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

706 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

797 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

96.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

960

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.94 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

63.76 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.530 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

63.76 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GK106

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N14E-GS-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

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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