AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1139MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition
+34%
1.962 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q
1.458 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
Jan 2018
Crystal System
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1139 MHz
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
1752 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
112.1GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
5
1024
Shading Units
640
64
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
30.66 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.22 GPixel/s
61.31 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
45.56 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
22.78 GFLOPS
1.962 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1458 GFLOPS
122.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
45.56 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
GP107
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
N17P-G0-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
3.3 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
132 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
