AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
976 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition
+1444%
1.962 TFLOPS
GeForce 9700M GTS
0.127 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
Jul 2008
Crystal System
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
1024
Shading Units
48
64
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
30.66 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.480 GPixel/s
61.31 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.72 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.962 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
127.2 GFLOPS
122.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
80W
TDP
60W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
G94
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
NB9E-GS
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
