AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro 5300M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition AMD Radeon Pro 5300M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5300M 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 85W)

AMD Radeon Pro 5300M 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1250MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5300M +60%

3.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

Radeon Pro 5300M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Nov 2019

Crystal System

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1250 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

20

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.00 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.400 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.200 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

200.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Navi 14

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PROA

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

85W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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