AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 5600M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

AMD Radeon RX 5600M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600M 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 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 5600M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1265MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600M +191%

5.829 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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Radeon RX 5600M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jul 2020

Crystal System

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1035 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1265 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

36

-

1024

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.96 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

11.66 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.829 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

150W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Navi 10

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XME

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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