AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs AMD Radeon RX 5500M

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

AMD Radeon RX 5500M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 83% (1645MHz vs 900MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500M +101%

4.632 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

Radeon RX 5500M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Oct 2019

Crystal System

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1375 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1645 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

22

-

1280

Shading Units

1408

80

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.64 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

144.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.265 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.632 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

289.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

85W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Navi 14

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTM

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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