AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 4550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)

1200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +2518%

2.304 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 4550

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 4550

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2010

Crystal System

Generation

M9x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

11.20GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

1

-

1280

Shading Units

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.400 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

88.00 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

M93

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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