AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X 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

Boost Clock900MHz

Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition +51%

3.482 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

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Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Nov 2014

Crystal System

Generation

Crystal System

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

1362 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

174.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

32

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

3.482 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.482 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

217.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Amethyst

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

250W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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