AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 4830 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 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +212%

1.997 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 4830

0.64 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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Mobility Radeon HD 4830

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Mar 2009

Crystal System

Generation

M9x

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

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

8

-

1024

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

640.0 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

128.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

M97

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

M97 M2 (216-0731004)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.826 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

137 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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