AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X 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

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (65W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X Mobile +9%

2.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

Radeon RX 560X Mobile

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jan 2019

Crystal System

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

14

-

1024

Shading Units

896

64

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.57 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.49 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.192 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.192 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

137.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Polaris 31

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Polaris 31 MXL

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

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

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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