AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1011MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL +29%

2.588 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Apr 2018

Crystal System

Generation

Vega

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

IGP

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

931 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1011 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

1024bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/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

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.35 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.88 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

2.588 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.588 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

161.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Polaris 22

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

VegaM MGL XL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

208 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

65W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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