AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1185MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +127%

4.55 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jan 2020

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1185 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

1024

Shading Units

1920

64

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.88 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.101 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.550 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

65W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

TU106

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N18E-G1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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