AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 550v 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 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v 's Advantages

Lower TDP (10W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +593%

1.997 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 550v

0.288 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 550v

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

May 2010

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

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

4

-

1024

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.0 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

80W

TDP

10W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

M96

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

146 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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