AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1282MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +393%

9.846 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jan 2021

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

3840

64

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GA106

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

60W

-

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

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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