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

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition AMD Radeon Pro 575X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro 575X 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 Clock975MHz

Lower TDP (80W vs 150W)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 575X +124%

4.489 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

Radeon Pro 575X

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Mar 2019

Crystal System

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

217.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

32

1024

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

35.07 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

140.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.489 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.489 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

280.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

150W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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