AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM RTX 5000 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 120W)

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 117% (2115MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation +1960%

41.15 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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RTX 5000 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

1425 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

2115 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

76

1024

Shading Units

9728

64

TMUs

304

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

304

-

RT Cores

76

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

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Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

236.9 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

643.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

41.15 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

41.15 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

643.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

120W

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No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

AD103

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

45.9 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

379 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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