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AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 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
Lower TDP (80W vs 115W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition
1.962 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q +187%
5.648 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

May 2015
Release Date
Jun 2017
Crystal System
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1215 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz

Memory

2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s

Render Config

16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
1024
Shading Units
2048
64
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

30.66 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
88.26 GPixel/s
61.31 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
88.26 GFLOPS
1.962 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.648 TFLOPS
122.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
176.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W
TDP
115W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn
GPU Name
GP104
Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)
GPU Variant
N17E-G2-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
314 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
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