AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1085MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +65%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 860M

1.389 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

GeForce GTX 860M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2014

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1020 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.36 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

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2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GM107

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N15P-GX-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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