AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs AMD Radeon E8870

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X

AMD Radeon E8870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 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 96.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +50%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

Radeon E8870

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Sep 2015

Crystal System

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

12

-

1280

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Saturn

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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