AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM RTX A4000 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1395MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
1.997 TFLOPS
RTX A4000 Max Q
+615%
14.28 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
780 MHz
975 MHz
Boost Clock
1395 MHz
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
352.0GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
40
1024
Shading Units
5120
64
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
111.6 GPixel/s
62.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
223.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
14.28 TFLOPS
1.997 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.28 TFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
223.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
GA104
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
392 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
