AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 62% (1455MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

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

8448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q +1128%

28.31 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

GeForce RTX 4090 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

930 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1455 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

76

1280

Shading Units

9728

80

TMUs

304

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

304

-

RT Cores

76

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

163.0 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

442.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

28.31 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.31 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

442.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

AD103

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

GN21-X11

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

379 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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