AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6470M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6470M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6470M 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 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6470M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +791%

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6470M

0.224 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6470M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

Crystal System

Generation

Vancouver

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

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

2

-

1024

Shading Units

160

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.600 GTexel/s

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

224.0 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

80W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Seymour

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Seymour XT (216-0810084)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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