AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q +199%

5.99 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Apr 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

735 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

352.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

3072

64

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

187.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

11.98 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.990 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

187.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

TU104

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N18E-G3R

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

Board Design

80W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

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CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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