AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand 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 4 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +56%

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand

1.28 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jul 2011

Crystal System

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

14

1024

Shading Units

800

64

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1280 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Broadway

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Broadway XTX

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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