AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1379MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q +145%

5.648 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jun 2017

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1215 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.26 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

88.26 GFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.648 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

176.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GP104

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N17E-G2-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

314 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

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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