AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 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 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 94% (1890MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile +481%

11.61 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jan 2023

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1545 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1890 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

3072

64

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

24

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.72 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

181.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

11.61 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.61 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

181.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

AD107

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GN21-X4

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

115W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

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

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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