AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 48 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

Boost Clock975MHz

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 48 +269%

7.373 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 48

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

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

48

1024

Shading Units

3072

64

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

76.80 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.75 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.373 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

460.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Vega 10

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 PRO

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

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

6.7

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