AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs AMD Radeon HD 7630M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7630M 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 late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7630M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +433%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7630M

0.432 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

Radeon HD 7630M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2012

Crystal System

Generation

London

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

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

6

1280

Shading Units

480

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

432.0 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Thames

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Thames LP

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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