AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M 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 120.3GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1038MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M +33%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Oct 2014

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GM204

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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