AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +860%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GT

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

GeForce 9800M GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jul 2008

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

1280

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

G92

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

NB9E-GT2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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