AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 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 3080 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 72% (1545MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +723%

18.98 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2021

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1110 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

1280

Shading Units

6144

80

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

148.3 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

296.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

18.98 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

18.98 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

296.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

115W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GA104

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

GA104-775-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

392 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

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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