AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon 535 Mobile

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

AMD Radeon 535 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon 535 Mobile 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 36.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 535 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1024MHz vs 975MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +154%

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon 535 Mobile

0.786 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

Radeon 535 Mobile

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Apr 2017

Crystal System

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1024 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

36.00GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

6

-

1024

Shading Units

384

64

TMUs

24

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

8.192 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.58 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

786.4 GFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

786.4 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

49.15 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Polaris 24

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Polaris 24 XT (216-0867030)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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