AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand 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

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (975MHz vs 850MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +267%

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

May 2014

Crystal System

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

5

-

1024

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Sun

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Sun LE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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