AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 8GB VRAM RTX A4000 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 55% (1395MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

RTX A4000 Max Q +519%

14.28 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

RTX A4000 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Apr 2021

Crystal System

Generation

Quadro Ampere-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1395 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

352.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

40

1280

Shading Units

5120

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

111.6 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

223.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.28 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.28 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

223.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GA104

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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