AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX 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 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1178MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX +70%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jun 2016

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1664

80

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

148W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GM204

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

398 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

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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