AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +274%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470M

0.616 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

GeForce GTX 470M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Sep 2010

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

288

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.420 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.68 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

616.3 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GF104

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N11E-GT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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