AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1470MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 Max Q +292%

9.032 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

GeForce RTX 4060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2023

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

1280

Shading Units

3072

80

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

24

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

70.56 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

141.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.032 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.032 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

141.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

AD107

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

GN21-X4

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

146 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

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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