AMD Radeon RX 570 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 570 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 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 570 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1206MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 570 Mobile +147%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570 Mobile

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Nov 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

16

-

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Ellesmere PRO

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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