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

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile

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

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1560MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/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 Mobile +379%

9.585 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile

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

1365 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1560 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

48

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

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Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

299.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

19.17 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.585 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

299.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

150W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

TU104

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N18E-G3

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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