AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs ATI Radeon E4690 PCIe

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

ATI Radeon E4690 PCIe

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 512MB VRAM Radeon E4690 PCIe 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 and 7 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon E4690 PCIe 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +500%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon E4690 PCIe

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

Radeon E4690 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jun 2009

Crystal System

Generation

Embedded

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

700 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

4

-

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

30W

-

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

RV730

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

RV730 XT E4690 (215-0729055)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

146 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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