AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce MX150

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce MX150

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX150 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 48.06GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX150 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 57% (1532MHz vs 975MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +69%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce MX150

1.177 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce MX150

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

May 2017

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1532 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

1024

Shading Units

384

64

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.51 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.77 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.38 GFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1177 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

36.77 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GP108

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GP108-650-A1 (N17S-G1-A1)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

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

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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