AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile 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

Lower TDP (80W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1590MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile +368%

9.362 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jan 2019

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

1380 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1590 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

1024

Shading Units

2944

64

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

101.8 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

292.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

18.72 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.362 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

292.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

150W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

TU104

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N18E-G3-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

545 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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