AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA NVS 3100M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 512MB VRAM NVS 3100M 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 3100M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +4802%

2.304 TFLOPS

NVS 3100M

0.047 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

NVS 3100M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2010

Crystal System

Generation

NVS Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

790 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.64GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

16

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.424 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.848 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

46.98 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GT218

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N10M-NS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

14W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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