AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA NVS 4200M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA NVS 4200M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 1024MB VRAM NVS 4200M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 4200M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +1376%

2.304 TFLOPS

NVS 4200M

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

NVS 4200M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Feb 2011

Crystal System

Generation

NVS Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

1280

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GF119

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N12P-NS1-S-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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