AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1455MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

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

8704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q +1317%

28.31 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q

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

930 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1455 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

76

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

9728

64

TMUs

304

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

304

-

RT Cores

76

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

163.0 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

442.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

28.31 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.31 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

442.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

AD103

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GN21-X11

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

80W

-

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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