AMD Radeon RX 5600M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 5600M

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5600M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1265MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5600M +191%

5.829 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600M

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2020

Release Date

Nov 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1035 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1265 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

16

-

2304

Shading Units

1024

144

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

182.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

11.66 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.829 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

364.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Navi 10 XME

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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