AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega M GL 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 Vega M GL 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1011MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega M GL +29%

2.588 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega M GL

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Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2018

Release Date

Nov 2014

Vega

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

IGP

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

931 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1011 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

1024bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

16

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.35 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

80.88 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

2.588 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.588 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

161.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 22

GPU Name

Pitcairn

VegaM XL (D715A714)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

208 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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