AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM RTX A2000 Max Q 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 95W)
NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1207MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
1.997 TFLOPS
RTX A2000 Max Q
+209%
6.18 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2014
Release Date
Apr 2021
Crystal System
Generation
Ampere-MW
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
682 MHz
975 MHz
Boost Clock
1207 MHz
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
20
1024
Shading Units
2560
64
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
80
-
RT Cores
20
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
57.94 GPixel/s
62.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
96.56 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.180 TFLOPS
1.997 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.180 TFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.56 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
95W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
GA107
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
200 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
-
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.8
