AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA P106M

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA P106M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 4GB VRAM P106M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Boost Clock900MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 96.13GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA P106M 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

P106M +29%

2.974 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

P106M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2019

Crystal System

Generation

Mining GPUs

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

96.13GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

1280

Shading Units

1152

80

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

41.31 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.95 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

46.48 GFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.974 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

92.95 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GP106

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

GP106-505-KC-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 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

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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