AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 83% (1650MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics +9%

2.534 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Oct 2020

Crystal System

Generation

HD Graphics-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

300 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2133 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

LPDDR4X

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

68.26GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.60 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

79.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.069 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.534 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

633.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

DG1

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Generation 12.1

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

28 nm

Process Size

10 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

95 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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