AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA NVS 2100M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition NVIDIA NVS 2100M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM NVS 2100M 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 10 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

1008 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 2100M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (11W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +5020%

1.997 TFLOPS

NVS 2100M

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

NVS 2100M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jan 2010

Crystal System

Generation

NVS Mobile

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

790 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

12.64GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

16

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.140 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.280 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

39.36 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GT218

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

11W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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