AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1095MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q +179%

6.447 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

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GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2019

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

735 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1095 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

1280

Shading Units

2944

80

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

70.08 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.89 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.447 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

80W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

TU104

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N18E-G3-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

545 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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