AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M 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 960M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1176MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +53%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

GeForce GTX 960M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Mar 2015

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1097 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1176 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

18.82 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

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2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GM107

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N16P-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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