NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX A5000 Max Q 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
NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1350MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)
5120 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A5000 Max Q
+730%
16.59 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
1.997 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Nov 2014
Quadro Ampere-M
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
720 MHz
Base Clock
850 MHz
1350 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1365 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
48
SM Count
-
6144
Shading Units
1024
192
TMUs
64
96
ROPs
32
192
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
129.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
259.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
62.40 GTexel/s
16.59 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.59 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.997 TFLOPS
259.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
Pitcairn
-
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
