AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 6300M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition AMD Radeon RX 6300M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 6300M 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6300M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 146% (2400MHz vs 975MHz)

Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6300M +84%

3.686 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

Radeon RX 6300M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

Crystal System

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

2000 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

2400 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

32bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

12

1024

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

12

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

76.80 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

115.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

7.373 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.686 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

230.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Navi 24

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XML

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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