AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 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 115W)

NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 74% (1695MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation +682%

15.62 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Mar 2023

Crystal System

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1395 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

1024

Shading Units

4608

64

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

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Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.36 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

244.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.62 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.62 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

244.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

115W

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No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

AD106

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

22.9 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

188 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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