AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X Mobile 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 560X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (65W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560X Mobile +9%

2.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X Mobile

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Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Nov 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

16

896

Shading Units

1024

56

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.57 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

68.49 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

2.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

137.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 31

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Polaris 31 MXL

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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