AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs AMD Radeon Pro 580

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

AMD Radeon Pro 580

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon Pro 580 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1200MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (217.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580 +140%

5.53 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

Radeon Pro 580

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jun 2017

Crystal System

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1695 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

217.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

36

-

1280

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.40 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

172.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.530 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.530 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

345.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

185W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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