AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon E9560 PCIe

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition AMD Radeon E9560 PCIe

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon E9560 PCIe 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

Lower TDP (80W vs 130W)

AMD Radeon E9560 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1237MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon E9560 PCIe +185%

5.7 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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Radeon E9560 PCIe

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Oct 2019

Crystal System

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1237 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

36

1024

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.58 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

178.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.700 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.700 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

356.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

130W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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