AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA T600 Max-Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM T600 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA T600 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1395MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Lower TDP (40W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
1.997 TFLOPS
T600 Max Q
+25%
2.5 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2014
Release Date
Apr 2021
Crystal System
Generation
Quadro Turing-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
930 MHz
975 MHz
Boost Clock
1395 MHz
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
14
1024
Shading Units
896
64
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
44.64 GPixel/s
62.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
78.12 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
5.000 TFLOPS
1.997 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.500 TFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
78.12 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
40W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
TU117
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
12 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
4.7 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
7.5
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
