AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce MX450 25W

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA GeForce MX450 25W

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX450 25W 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 80.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX450 25W 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (930MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +38%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce MX450 25W

1.667 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

GeForce MX450 25W

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Aug 2020

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

720 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

930 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

1280

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.76 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.08 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.333 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.667 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

52.08 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

TU117

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N18S-G5

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 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

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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