AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 150M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

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

1216 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +1700%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 150M

0.128 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

GeForce GTS 150M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Mar 2009

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 100M

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

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

1280

Shading Units

64

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.80 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

128.0 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

G94

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N10E-GE1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

240 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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