AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 64 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 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1350MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

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

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 64 +453%

11.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 64

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

1250 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1350 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

64

-

1024

Shading Units

4096

64

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

86.40 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

345.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

22.12 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.06 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

691.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

250W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Vega 10

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

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

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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