AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 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)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 57% (1531MHz vs 975MHz)

Lower TDP (10W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +154%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Feb 2019

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1519 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 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

2

1024

Shading Units

256

64

TMUs

16

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

24.50 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

10W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GP108

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-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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