AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs AMD Radeon HD 8530M

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

AMD Radeon HD 8530M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8530M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (900MHz vs 700MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +414%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8530M

0.448 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

Radeon HD 8530M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2014

Crystal System

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

650 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

700 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

6

-

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

16

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

5.600 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

448.0 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

28.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Mars

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Mars S3 LE (216-0842054)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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