AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 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 5 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +76%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

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Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Aug 2011

Crystal System

Generation

Vancouver

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

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

12

-

1280

Shading Units

960

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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