AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro 570

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

AMD Radeon Pro 570

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro 570 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 150W)

AMD Radeon Pro 570 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1105MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (217.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 570 +98%

3.96 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

Radeon Pro 570

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jun 2017

Crystal System

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1105 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1695 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

217.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

28

-

1024

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

35.36 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.960 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.960 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

247.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

150W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20

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

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 M240

2

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

3

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh

4

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

5

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile

6

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon E4690 MXM

7

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 825M

8

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

9

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450

10

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Related News

1

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

2

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

3

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

4

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

5

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

6

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

7

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

8

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

9

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

10

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early