AMD Radeon Pro 575X vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Pro 575X AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro 575X 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 Pro 575X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (217.6GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock975MHz

Lower TDP (80W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 575X +124%

4.489 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 575X

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Nov 2014

Radeon Pro Mac

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

1700 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

217.6GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

16

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

35.07 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

140.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

4.489 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.489 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

280.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

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

Board Design

150W

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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