AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q Refresh

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q Refresh

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q Refresh 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 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q Refresh 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1125MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q Refresh +125%

5.184 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q Refresh

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Mar 2020

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1125 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

352.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

1280

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.00 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.37 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.184 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

162.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

115W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

TU106B

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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