AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro 580X

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

AMD Radeon Pro 580X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580X 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 185W)

AMD Radeon Pro 580X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1200MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (218.9GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580X +176%

5.53 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

Radeon Pro 580X

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Mar 2019

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

1100 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1710 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

218.9GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

36

-

1024

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

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

38.40 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

172.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.530 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.530 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

345.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

185W

-

No outputs

Outputs

2x HDMI 2.0b

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

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

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