AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility FireGL V5600

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

ATI Mobility FireGL V5600

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Mobility FireGL V5600 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

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

904 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +1564%

1.997 TFLOPS

Mobility FireGL V5600

0.12 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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Mobility FireGL V5600

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

May 2007

Crystal System

Generation

Mobility FireGL

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

3

-

1024

Shading Units

120

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

120.0 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

M76

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

M76 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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