AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

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

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

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 OEM

1.389 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

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GeForce GTX 860M OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Feb 2015

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

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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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FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

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

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

5.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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