AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce MX350

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce MX350

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX350 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (975MHz vs 937MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 56.06GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX350 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (20W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +66%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce MX350

1.199 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce MX350

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Feb 2020

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

747 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

937 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

56.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

5

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.99 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.98 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

18.74 GFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1199 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.48 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GP107

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GP107-670-A1 (N17S-G5-A1)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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