AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 2GB VRAM Radeon E9173 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1219MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +84%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon E9173 PCIe

1.248 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

Radeon E9173 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Oct 2017

Crystal System

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1124 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

8

1280

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.50 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Lexa

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

E9170

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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