AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 460 Mobile

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition AMD Radeon RX 460 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 Mobile 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 460 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1180MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (55W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460 Mobile +5%

2.115 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

Radeon RX 460 Mobile

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Aug 2016

Crystal System

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1180 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

14

1024

Shading Units

896

64

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

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

18.88 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

66.08 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

2.115 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.115 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

132.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Baffin

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Baffin XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

55W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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